> On Dec 17, 2018, at 5:32 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/2018 04:02 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
>> I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server, and the
>> associated fibre switches in need of a new home.
>
> Where are the servers located? Are they in Athabasca, Alberta Canada near
> you?
>
>> There three servers that were running Tru64 Unix 5 when shut down a week
>> ago, they are a DS15, and two ES45s. There is also a third ES45 which has
>> not run in a decade and was kept around as a cold spare.
>> None of the RA8000 disk will be available because the present owner is
>> protecting his data (of course) but all of the unused spare disks are
>> available and they will fit the internal slots in the DS15 and ES45s which
>> may or may not have disks depending on the whim of the present owner.
>
> Understandable.
>
> Is the owner keeping the raw disks or are they disks staying in sleds /
> enclosures? Read: Are the enclosures sans-disks available?
>
>> Lots of paper docs and Tru64 OS installation kits but no licenses.
>
> ACK
>
>> They can be had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free.
>
> Does it need to move as a single lot? Or is someone (you?) willing to passel
> things out (assuming everything moves relatively quickly)?
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
Wikipedia reports there is some variability in ES45 models, including number of
CPU and amount of memory. Any idea what model/spec these are?
Also: “...The AlphaServer SC was a supercomputer constructed from a set of
individual DS20L, ES40 or ES45 servers (called "nodes") mounted in racks….”
<drool>
I hope hard enough that this cluster gets saved that if no-one else comes
forward, I’d like to be notified….I’m not certain what I could arrange, but the
thought of running my own personal Alpha supercomputer … wow. Not sure how to
solve the license issue though. I assume OpenVMS doesn’t support that level of
parallelization?
- Mark
