Trivia in the morning (afternoon for me) is good.
Shall we compute the price per teraflop for these things? ;-)
One thing, that Maui machine would fit in your and mine garage, not sure the Blue Gene would.
Only a two bay cabinet. We used to have Eclipse computers from DG in two cabinets, well the disk and tape drives were pretty big those days:) I remember making good money upgrading 128 KB memory boards (15x15 inch) to 256 KB (because the 128 B were half populated and I could buy the special chips through DG service). Note that is Kilobytes !!
We would swap two of those half populated boards at a customer site where we did the service for one fully populated board, suck all the solder holes dry with a special tool and upgrade and test it. (memory test typically 5 hours)
Worked until DG started delivering these half populated boards with the holes not punched out everywhere:(
I still have a working Nova 4/X 256 KB ni my garage, which has an IO board in it which I designed. Haven't fired it up in a while...
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