Ah setiathome. Those systems in the photo will have handled a lot of my personal data - well, compared to random other earthlings.
I don't really have fond memories of that series of Sun Enterprise though - what are they, 3000 or 3500? Many a times that I stubbed my toes on that v-shaped thing protruding off the back side. Those systems only made sense for a cluster because they lacked internal reliability and power supply reduncancy - but cluster software back then didn't work too well, and I'm not sure anyone actually used that series as it was intended from the design - always as a cluster. Anyway, lots of very heavy metal frames, good enough to stub your toes on for sure - what I've come to call 'a stable platform' ie something you can put your weight on without worrying. Main issue for the 3000/3500 series were the power supplies as I recall, if you didn't get lucky, a 3500 would be a lot less reliable than a 250 - that didn't have all of the extra whoohow, but would work fine even after unbelievable abuse. Anyway, I still have some of the heatsinks that dropped off the several 3500 I had the privilege of knowing - one of them is now glued to the cpu of my spare server board. > On 3 Apr 2022, at 17:51, Eric J. Korpela via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > From here: > https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85870&postid=2096776#2096776 > > They are bog standard Sun Enterprise systems, drive removed and destroyed > for privacy reason. They are only interesting for what they've done. By > university rules, our group can essentially "permanent loan" them to a > non-profit, but any sale or transfer of ownership is up to > University Excess and Salvage. > > A bit of history disappearing, which is nothing new in this group.
