I worked at the PSC when we sold that Cray on eBay. I was a student programmer in the facilities group. I used to sell Magic cars on eBay, so I was consulted on

I worked at the PSC when we sold that Cray on eBay. I was a student programmer in the facilities group. I used to sell Magic cars on eBay, so I was consulted on selling the computer on the internet. Some part of my brain says it was my idea to sell the computer on eBay, but I'm not sure that's true... probably isn't.We just were trying to recover some of the costs of getting rid of the thing when we sold it. They are massive edifices that need water cooling infrastructure. These Crays are really quite beautiful things too - this one was done in Black and Gold to commemorate the Penguins as I recall. Each Cray had custom colors. The enormous platinum circuit boards in thm are absolutely fantastic, and they are worth a good bit of money each. At the same time we were getting rid of this one, we were installing the new massively parallel PC system called Lemieux: http://www.psc.edu/machines/tcs/- http://www.psc.edu/machines/tcs/- the terascale machine. I did some manual labor to install Lemieux down at the Westinghouse Power company, where all the PSC computers were housed. I guess Steve Blank was just ahead of his time at Ardent.