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Are you sure it was in 1995? I joined Sun in 1997, and the E10k was launched a bit after that. According to Wikipedia it was launched in 1997 so it does line u
by lokedhs 7y ago
Are you sure it was in 1995? I joined Sun in 1997, and the E10k was launched a bit after that.
According to Wikipedia it was launched in 1997 so it does line up. If I remember correctly, the system was bought from Cray after SGI bought the rest, so I didn't know they even had it at Sun in 1995.
Also, the original model of the E10k supported 64 GB RAM.
- tverbeure 7y agoMy company back then bought one of those around that time. It was used to run large EDA software jobs. On one beautiful day during the weekend, only a two weeks after delivery, our system admin noticed that the machine went offline. Logging in remotely didn’t work at all. No ping either. He drove to work and ... the machine was gone. Thieves had used a crane to lift it out of the building through a window onto a truck. Sun told him that this wasn’t the first time such a thing had happened and that somewhere in the chain from order to delivery, an insider tipped off the thieves about where to find the latest.
- selectodude 7y agoI'm curious where the black market for something like that would even come from?
- cr0sh 7y agoBack then, smaller nation-states wanting to do nuclear device simulation and the like would be my guess. Basically, countries that were restricted in some manner on gaining large amounts of parallel processing compute power for such simulations.
- tverbeure 7y agoMy money is on breaking it up and sell it for components. The 256 GB in server grade RAM alone cost a fortune.