On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:45 PM Tapley, Mark via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 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? >
I have two ES47 System Building Block Drawers boxes, each with two 1GHz 21364 EV7 processors, which form a four CPU ES47 Model 4 when the two boxes are connected via the interprocessor hose cables. I didn't have any issues getting OpenVMS 8.4 running on the four CPU system. Maybe the memory is half full, so 8GB in each of the two boxes. The real issue is that each of the two ES47 boxes weigh around 125 pounds and they are almost 3 feet deep, so not something I can pull out and set up for casual use. They were reasonably cheap on their own to acquire at the time, but the freight shipping certainly was not cheap. If someone in the Seattle area is really interested in an ES47 system, let me know, although I wouldn't want to just give them away completely free at this point.
