The 370? The cpu was about 6 feet high, 4 feet wide and 2-1/2 feet deep.
It had just been replaced by a new 390. That was about 1985 or so. The
Alpha Cluster I was thinking about was about the same size, complete
with peripherals and 32 CPU's, 1995 or so. A new Cray with 36 processors
is about the same size as my PC, and has about the same processing power
of one of those old cryogenically cooled ones for 0.1% of the price.
graywolf
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"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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P. J. Alling wrote:
Which version, room size or pizza box?
graywolf wrote:
Past glories, it is sad to me too, even Cray is using the AMD Opteron
in super computers now. Anyone have a DEC Alpha Cluster they want to
give away?
BTW, did I ever mention the IBM 370 mainframe I was once offered, "We
just want to get the damned thing out of here"? I turned it down not
realizing there was several hundred dollars worth of gold contacts in
the thing.
