Hardware For Sale/Trade

Not mine but.. this seems cheap for what it is!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SGI-4700-Serv ... 280180ebb0

Massive specification for the price of a new Mac Pro. Might need a slight overhaul to your home power wiring to drive it though

too many itanium cpus in that gear

can I ask you which is the Apps portfolio you had ? Any Irix App support ?
I do not know if it's possible to support Irix Apps on Itanium, and if it's reasonable

Spend 2.5K (plus dual 220V/32A service) to emulate a subset of apps for one obsolete OS on another obsolete architecture? Right ...

For hobbyist purposes, a Prism is much more practical. This is a HPC rig.

ivelegacy wrote: too many itanium cpus in that gear

can I ask you which is the Apps portfolio you had ? Any Irix App support ?
I do not know if it's possible to support Irix Apps on Itanium, and if it's reasonable

As I said, it's not mine. Just found it on eBay and thought it might be of interest to someone.

In fact, it would be interesting for the lab I work in, the problem is that Ebay is officially not the best source to buy this kind of HPC stuff (I think that we are not even allowed to use it) and then we would have to pay the collection of the monster, install it, make space in the datacenter, check if it still has some support from SGI and bla, bla, bla. At the end it is just easier to use one of the clusters we have available, they are much more powerful as well. I would love to have it from a pure hobbyist point of view but keeping it on would be extremely expensive. Moreover, you cannot have this in a normal room because of the heat and the noise level (even if you manage to plug it).

All in all, I think that I understand why the price is so cheap. It is not be best option for an institute or a company and it is a bit crazy to have it just for fun, it would cost like 1200 pounds per month to keep it running 24/7, and I am not even considering the amount of money that would be required to keep the room cool enough .

[[C|-|E]] wrote: it would cost like 1200 pounds per month to keep it running 24/7

Ironically today I have installed a few solar cells over the roof, they produce up to 1.2Kwatt (on summer), so my new IP30 (and, probably a lot of few appliances) will be fine

Before this idea, I was planning a diesel generator engine to power feed all my gears. Unluckily, once heard my plans Gaga threatened a bloody story, something like my head on a plate, so I had to give up. Umm my girl friend is like the inquisition, I felt like Galileo: I had to give up (but I am sure I would had great success. I guess)

ivelegacy wrote: Before this idea, I was planning a diesel generator engine to power feed all my gears.

Don't know about Italy, but where I live you will never ever get a permit for that. If you live within city limits at least.

jan-jaap wrote: Don't know about Italy, but where I live you will never ever get a permit for that

We live near a forest, and in this area I can have up to the 80% of the roof converted into solar cells. Milan is 50Km far from me, Gaga has a little house in the center (Corso Buenos Aires, it's a few Km far from the Duomo church), and we can't install anything over the roof because of all the "landscaping" rules you MUST respect.

Ironically (again) I can install a little diesel engine in her house
and there is no trouble if:

• it's low power (under 3 Kwatt)
• it does no noise, They want low db of noise, so it's a good idea to mount a good silencer, and have the whole engine installed inside a soundproofed box.
• it can be hidden, people do not see it (soundproofed box already hides)
• it's a removalbe (not permanent) engine
• it's not used 24/7, just sometimes like emergency power generator

That is insane because diesel polluter, solar cells do not.

I always liked the Prism/Altix mazy grille

Edit: Maya...



I think I'll fiddle with this and see if I can't make a new grille background for y'all

portable power generator

@jan-jaap
what they permit is similar to Power Engine int the photo above

Max. power (kW) 5.0
Engine Kohler Diesel / KD440
Autonomy (h) 13
Noise level dB(A) - 7m 79
Oil Guard Yes
Start Electrique
Lenght (cm) x Width (cm) x Height (cm) 81 x 56 x 59
Dry Weight (kgs) 103

And you only need 28 of those generators to power the Altix! (not considering the air conditioning)

Good that I found a proper one to keep everything running!

http://www.generac.com/all-products/gen ... 00kw-250kw



It only needs around 70 litres of diesel per hour at full load, not bad.