[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Michael Moroney]

David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

>Weren't racks of a "gazillion" DS10Ls a good solution for some problems? 
>  It seems that plenty of them were made and sold.

>Perhaps there are some applications better suited to many processors 
>than to just one or a few large processors ...

Almost anything that needs a lot of things done in parallel.  I do know
weather models and movie animation are two such things.

David Turner of Islandco got a hold of a whole bunch of DS10Ls, probably
from such a project that wound down. He sold them cheap and even gave
some away.  I wonder what project they may have been used for.

Similarly, someone on Ebay got a hold of a zillion rx2600 Itanics (2U
boxes), and was selling them for a long time.  I bought one of them.  I
also wonder what project they came from.  (I do know they were running
some sort of Linux and not VMS from the boot configuration)