[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[JohnF]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:
> moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes: 
> 
>> 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)
> 
> I read somewhere that King Kong's hair needed several thousand CPU hours 
> to be rendered, ditto for some Titanic stuff.  I'm pretty sure Titanic 
> was Alpha (and Linux); not sure about King Kong.

Just curious -- nowadays this particular kind of stuff would be
done using some cuda kind of architecture. Is that right?
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )