Am I Crazy?

sydney075 · Post by **sydney075** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:34 am

Behold the craziest thing to portablize since the xbox. A Sun SPARCServer 1000e with raid array.

To put the size in perspective that is a quarter in the first picture leaning against the raid array.

Okay, Okay. I'm not really portablizing it that can't really be done but it is really cool because I got it for free. The system is only 6 years old and has 8 cpus with 1.5 gig of ram. The raid array has 10 9.1 gig drives and the server itself has another 8 drives inside, of what size I am not quite sure yet. I have managed to brig the server online using tera term and comunicate commands but, I haven't been able to figure out file transfer to it yet. My goal is to put blender 3d on it so I can use it for rendering.

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For those who did not read above I am not really portabilizing this.
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Unidentified Assilant · Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:42 am

woah... portablize it by putting a screen above it lol... there!

A PC Portable is hard enough!

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:08 am

What OS are you using with it? Not all operating systems support multi-CPUs, and few support 8.

I know the best of the four versions of WIN2K can, though...

Post by **benheck** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:41 am

Hey I have that same laptop!

sydney075 · Post by **sydney075** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:55 am

@Unidentified Assilant: You should see the ups backup can anyone say BIG battery.

@mm007: At them moment it is running solaris as that was what it was installed with and I plan to only run blender in cmd line format. And as far as I can tell blender does support 2 thread rendering. Which once I get that working I will be setting up yafray which supports multiple cpus.

@benheckc: Yeah I noticed the same thing when you posted you picture of the atari 800 laptop. You had it sitting on your laptop.

My main problem right now is just trying to transfer files to the system as I don't know much about unix based systems.

Post by **Triton** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:02 am

wherwe the hell you get a thing like that? how much that SOB cost? lol

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:03 am

Triton wrote:wherwe the hell you get a thing like that? how much that SOB cost? lol

He said he got it for free....

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:25 am

larger companys pritty much throw away old even slighly old stuff like that for new severs and laptops. portablizing that is not imposable. Car battrys and an inverter....

Mr. Cool · Post by **Mr. Cool** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:57 am

Triton wrote:wherwe the hell you get a thing like that? how much that SOB cost? lol

I searched froogle, and there was one for around $600. The 3500e costs $40,000 though, so Im not sure if thats right.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:44 am

holy crapp!!! no way thatll go portable

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:01 am

thats got like 300mhz all together