Forget everything I’ve ever said about beowulf clusters, I’ve changed my mind and am namin’ and claimin’ this e-Bay offering of a Cray T3E-1200E Supercomputer System as any good word-o-faith disciple would. Sure, my faith is weak for prayin’ for a ‘used‘ system, still this bad-boy was installed in 1999 and used until October 2004, when Cray personnel de-installed the system under contract with the direction that the system would be re-installed.
The Cray T3E-1200E™ system was the first supercomputer to sustain one teraflop (1 trillion calculations per second) on a real-world application, boasts of 30GB of total memory, delivers peak performance of 134 Gflop/s and requires the installation services of a plumber.
Talk about thinking big – imagine all the church parking lot problems and webistes we could handle with this monster!
July 13, 2005 at 1:09 pm
Ooorrrrgghhhh?
July 13, 2005 at 6:18 pm
Arr, arr, arrrrrrrrgggggg!
July 14, 2005 at 3:42 am
I think it can better be called as “Ultimate Webserver for chruches” instead of “Ultimate Church Webserver”
Using this monster as webserver for a single church is simply a waste. And computing power is not the main focus of a web server. The bandwidth is.
July 14, 2005 at 8:04 am
Dear Someone
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It was a joke okay? Stinkin’ Misraelites can’t even have fun fantisizing over a Cray … what’s this world coming to?!
July 14, 2005 at 12:38 pm
That’s awesome!
It’s sad now that PC’s can hold twice as much space now
Cheers!
July 15, 2005 at 8:47 pm
I didn’t know that PC’s commonly came with 60Gb of ram now… and I thought that 1.5 Gbs was good.
If you read the specs this is still a good machine. However a few seperate
July 15, 2005 at 8:48 pm
I didn’t know that PC’s commonly came with 60Gb of ram now… and I thought that 1.5 Gbs was good.
If you read the specs this is still a good machine. However a few seperate servers would be better for webpages
July 18, 2005 at 11:48 am
Hey, it wasn’t purchased and has been relisted. At a lower cost. Pretty soon, they might be happy to donate it to the Work of the Lord for a handsome tax receipt.
~deb
July 27, 2005 at 5:11 pm
I bought my wife a 7′-4” Bozendorfer (the world’s best piano, folks), because she is a concert-level pianist. Now that I see a Cray-T3E available that is CHEAPER than the Bozendorfer – and not much heavier nor much larger – I am having second thoughts. I mentioned this to her, and now she is having second thoughts……
August 3, 2005 at 8:57 pm
I knew you’d like it…
August 8, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Yeah, but it is still a Cray. I mean, how cool is that? It would be funny to know how much it was installed for.