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as/400?
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(posted from IBM's website)
IBM iSeries 520 Express Edition
Product details
Browse & buy
Designed for small to medium-sized businesses, the 520 Express Edition runs a broad range of applications. It can consolidate Windows and UNIX servers providing the capability to run your business and not a server farm.
Softwarei5/OS, Linux®, Windows Server, AIX 5LMemory (Range)Up to 32GBDisk (Range)Up to 19TBProcessor performance500 - 2400 CPW
IBM iSeries 520 Express Edition
Designed for small to medium-sized businesses, the 520 Express Edition runs a broad range of applications. It can consolidate Windows and UNIX servers providing the capability to run your business and not a server farm.
Softwarei5/OS, Linux®, Windows Server, AIX 5LMemory (Range)Up to 32GBDisk (Range)Up to 19TBProcessor performance500 - 2400 CPW
i might be able to get this sucker in a month or two... I work for a bank and we actualy have two that we aren't using right now... we can't do anything with it because when a new version of our software comes out it will only support the newest one. ( i've actually thought of using it as an extremely powerful server for my college dorm room but thought this would be a better use for it.
AtomicMoose
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We use these at work as well.
very powerful...
very powerful...
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My only concern would be are they x86 compatible. The documentation I've found seems to hint that they are PPC which Stanford doesn't have Win or Linux clients for.
If its x86 though, that would be a flat out evil box to have on your side.
If its x86 though, that would be a flat out evil box to have on your side.
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It says it can run windows/Linux.
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/drool/
Do mainframe-type computers have what it takes to be good folders? I know nothing about architecture and so forth, but I'm just wondering since F@H is optimized for x86, would the mainframe type processors do well?
No.jebo_4jc said:
The processors on midrange servers are no match whatsoever for modern Opterons and P4's at raw calculating power. A Sempron 2100+ would likely humiliate this AS/400. These things are designed to move mountains of data around as quickly as possible, not line up and perform as many calculations and operations per second as possible. There's incidentally a bit of a good explanation up at Anandtech today in their evaluation of the new Sun T1 chips.
FalconSS said:
Yeah, it should LPAR just fine. I believe it was said that it's not being used for anything. If so, there's a good chance no one would miss the loss of some resources to make an LPAR to install PPC Linux
It's Power PC processors, though.
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P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Power PC!