On 13/01/2013, at 2:21 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >>>> Blue Gene >>> >>> hard to fit in the basement. >> >> How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here. > > I caution against working on any hardware which can no longer be > purchased new (sparc32, alpha), it's just pouring time/money down a > hole. Sparc64 appears to still be available, although only as > expensive server hardware?
Cavium Octeon? MIPS64, actively available, but probably not that cheap. Likely get a PPC64 board cheaper. d