Re: Yo! How about porting OpenBSD to a Cray Supercomputer?

[John Todd <jtodd@loligo.com>]

>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426080142
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>There is a Cray Supercomputer up for auction on eBay.  Minimum bid is only
>$35,000.  She can do 16 GigaFlops per second.  4 Gig of main memory and 160
>Gig of RAID drive storage.  And she's so pretty decked out in gold and black
>two tone. Such a deal!
>
>Now THAT would be an interesting porting project for OpenBSD.  Whadduya say
>Theo?
>
>Forgive me, it's still early this AM and I am silly ;-)
>
>--
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>Luke Seubert
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>
>9 out of 10 politicians prefer unarmed peasants.
>The tenth one prefers voluptuous redheads.

You can get them for a lot less than that; a fellow I know has 
several, and I think they cost him (each) less than what the system 
on eBay is going for, and I think his were 96-vintage (sorry - don't 
know a lot about the Crays - when I get one to play with myself, I'll 
be able to speak more knowledgeably on the topic.)   His electric 
bill is non-trivial, though.

The thing is that the Cray will probably already run OpenBSD; the 
controller boards are Sparc 5's, I seem to recall.  Making it 
completely functional (i.e.: doing something other than booting the 
controller board) is I'm sure a completely different and 
non-rewarding story.

JT