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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@pro...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:25:59 +0200

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:51:59PM -0700, James A. Robinson wrote:
> 
> I wonder if the Bell Labs folks ever considered porting
> the CPU server code to something like one of these?
> 
>   http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426080142
> 
And then, as suggested here a while back, make the thing publicly
accessible.  The power consumption of such a beast has got to be
phenomenal.  But maybe the NSF will fund it?

++L <nice footwarmer for 9-fans!>