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Sun Releases Starcat
SilentChris writes: "Sun has released the Starcat server, a beast with up to 106 processors running Unix. Anyone have an extra couple [million] bucks lying around?" They're not cheap.
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At last a platform to get descent java performance...
Je t'aime Stéphanie
until it shows up on e-bay from a disgruntled former dot bomb employee who five-fingered it from a linux shop which stole BSD code.
Been there, done that. Tech here working with the StarFire used to run Seti@Home on idle systems. 64 400MHz UltraSparcs. Team Sun@Home rose rather quickly in the ranks those days, I hear. ;)
der dee der.
Configuration Error
1) Error calling config servlet: sunir.webdesk.common.checker.ConfigInternalExcepti on: Couldn't get sql connection
Then I tried to reload the page and didn't even get a response....
Funny and I thought Perl == Paid employment recently located
Sun themselves are in a need for boxes like that as their website seems severely slashdotted right now.
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
Dear Santa,
I've been a real good gEek this year. I wrote several white-hat worms to fix IIS holes. I defended IP rights in the Linux kernel. I also mirrored the LOTR trailer.
Could I please get just one little old Starcat Server from Sun? Please make sure it is the 106 processor version with 576 GB of RAM.
I will be real good and use my idle time for SETI.
Your pal,
digital_freedom
P.S. Chocolate chip cookies are your favorite right?
"Wow, look at all the hits we're getting on the Starcat shopping cart! We're going to make a mint on these suckers!"
Those are some great servers, huh... we slashdotted Sun...
Um. I believe Starcat Cluster is a trademark owned by the Little Debbie Food Group Inc., Lubbock Texas. It consists of two Star Crunch patties glued together with Mallow Kreeme filling. Then dipped in a Chocolastic sealant.
Just watch out. I hear Debbie has quite a few lawyers.
200-240 single phase VAC, 47-63 Hz, with six 30 Amp circuits redundant with another six on 2 separate power grids
Can you get it bundled with 12 30A 240V 100meter extention cords? (So you could plug it directly in to every panel on the block.
Let's see...
Sparc 1 box, CPU pretty much part of the MB, unless you get one of those fancy Weitek things. CPU fails, tech replaces MB, no pins to bend.
Sparc 2, Sparc IPX, etc, same story.
Sparc 20, suddenly we have CPUs with pins on them. Coulda happened. Of course, that hasn't been current tech for several years.
UltraSparc line comes out...pressure fittings for the Enterprise servers, no pins to bend. Deskside UltraSparc (like E250, E450), no pins to bend, the CPU is on a card just like Intel does these days.
Ultrasparc III line comes out, big servers don't even use pressure fittings--if you lose a CPU, you get a new system board. Deskside US III (SunBlade 1000) uses a card similar to older deskside units, and has rails to line it up and a torque tool to seat it. Don't see too many bent pins there.
So, apparently you got burned once a very long time ago with a Sparc 20. Don't you think it's time to get over it?
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
Liberty.
I thought we weren't supposed to use strcat anymore, because it's subject to buffer overflows?
4 overweight geeks just had heart attacks thinking about that hypothetical snack food.
We all know strncat() is better.
Liberty in your lifetime
"Click here to buy online"
Who the heck buys this stuff online ???!?!?!
"Mhmm I think I'll charge this one to my Discover card"
A stack of 6800's? Do they have eight chips in a cluster to make a 64 bit machine? Perhaps they'll move up to the MC680x0 line soon -- that would show the Macintosh SE who's boss!
SCHZHCHC.. Thank you for choosing Sun... Can I take your order
Umm... Lemme see... It's not breakfast anymore is it?
No sir....
Hmmm... Can I have one of those Sun 15k servers?
Ok... 1 Sun 15k server... That will be $1,808,110.00.... Would you like to super-size that order?
Yeah sure... Why not..
Aight... That will come to $4,140,830.00
Would you like to add on the extra disk array for only $480,400.00
No thats Ok
Ok... With tax your total comes to $4,430,688.10
Please drive around to the next window
From the site:
With 106 UltraSPARC III Cu 900-MHz processors, more than half a terabyte of memory, and fifth-generation Dynamic System Domains, the Sun Fire 15k server helps redefine total cost of ownership in data center environments
Yeah, no kidding...