__/ [ Jim ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 12:18 \__
> On or about 2006-09-16 Saturday 01:16, I did witness the following events
> concerning Roy Schestowitz:
>
>> __/ [ Jim ] on Friday 15 September 2006 02:16 \__
>>
>>> On or about 2006-09-14 Thursday 12:10, I did witness the following events
>>> concerning Roy Schestowitz:
>>>
>>>> __/ [ Jim ] on Thursday 14 September 2006 02:26 \__
>>>>
>>>>> On or about 2006-09-13 Wednesday 20:49, I did witness the following
>>>>> events concerning Mark Kent:
>>>>>
>>>>>> begin oe_protect.scr
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>> IBM begins selling Cell blades
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>| Unlike IBM blades with Big Blue's Power processors, Intel's Xeon or
>>>>>>>| Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, the Cell blades can't be intermixed
>>>>>>>| with other varieties in the same BladeCenter chassis. The systemsr
>>>>>>>| un Red Hat's Fedora Core 5 version of Linux.
>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6115225.html?part=rss&tag=6115225&subj=news
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's a big mistake. Roll on ATCA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I still want 5,000 of those AMD matchox SBCs.
>>>>
>>>> 5000 matchboxes? It could get blazingly hot.
>>>
>>> I had to think about that one for a minute... well, it is 2am. That's my
>>> excuse and I'm sticking to it! :)
>>
>> So will the SBC! (stick to each other when they melt)
>>
>
> they don't actually put out that much heat (explains the complete lack of
> heatsinks). Still, I wouldn't build such a system without some sort of
> ducted airflow system, especially considering the number of processors I'd
> be putting in it.
And what will you use it for anyway? SETI@home? A powerful machine that's
work-thirsty-yet-underemployed is a sad machine. Last year I saw a 10,000
pound server used as a desktop machine by a colleague. And I think she ran
Windows 2000 on it... to do routine stuff. What a total waste of grant
money...
Best wishes,
Roy
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