[Info-vax] Free BL860c i2 to a good home

Mark DeArman s.d.m at ieee.org
Sun Feb 27 20:57:27 EST 2022


On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:46:11 -0800 (PST), gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu>
wrote:

>On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 12:57:04 PM UTC-8, David Turner wrote:
>> Well, they're completely different 
>
>As far as I know, they are both Itanium based Integrity servers.
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>But other than that, I suspect they are pretty different.
>
>But if one, for example, wanted to replace an RX2600 with 
>a BL860c (and C3000 and such), how might they compare?
>
>How much faster is the BL860c?  
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>(And, unfortunately, how do they compare in power usage?)
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>

All I can add, is I belive my from my estimates, is that my rx2620
with three drives populated, accounts for about 500W of continuous
usage.  Very high. Compared to everything else in the cabinet.

Mark



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