[HECnet] Superdome anyone?

[Kari Uusim ki]

Yes, it is possible to replace PA-RISC cells with Itanium cells, but as the architecture isn't very recent, you cannot use very recent cells (or CPUs). The version with PA8800/8900 CPUs can be upgraded to a version with up to 1.6GHz Itanium CPU's.


Kari





On 1.10.2011 17:54, Brian Hechinger wrote:
You should be able to replace the CPUs with uranium if you wanted to (and could find/afford uranium system boards) no?

-brian

On Oct 1, 2011, at 6:40, MG<marcogb at xs4all.nl>   wrote:

On 1-10-2011 11:45, Mark Wickens wrote:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320767503311&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123<http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320767503311&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123>

If anyone here would seriously wish to spend that amount of money and has
the electric requirements to run that at home: For what would, or could,
one want to use it?   Considering it's advertised as an HP 9000 (PA-RISC).

For that price one could probably find an rx6600, for example and still
have some money left to fill it at least half-way up with modern multi-
core/threading processors.

- MG


.