Machines I Have Known and Loved: Difference between revisions
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There were definitely also a Compaq Alpha SMP SCSI full tower and a [[Transmeta]] laptop in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can't recall their names. For a few months, I owned a collection of old UNIX workstations covering IRIX, HPUX, AIX, and Solaris, but I donated these to the Georgia Tech Computing Museum, and never did enough with them to consider them truly known or loved. | There were definitely also a Compaq Alpha SMP SCSI full tower and a [[Transmeta]] laptop in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can't recall their names. For a few months, I owned a collection of old UNIX workstations covering IRIX, HPUX, AIX, and Solaris, but I donated these to the Georgia Tech Computing Museum, and never did enough with them to consider them truly known or loved. | ||
==home machines== | ==home machines== | ||
===qgp (2023--)=== | |||
* Aorus Elite X670 | |||
===[[Strangelet|strangelet]] (2022--)=== | |||
* Purchased largely as a unit off ebay for $999 | |||
* [https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/4U/8048/SYS-8048B-TRFT.cfm Supermicro SYS-8048B-TRFT] 24-bay 4U chassis | |||
* 4x Intel Xeon [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/75248/intel-xeon-processor-e74850-v2-24m-cache-2-30-ghz/specifications.html E7-4850v2] Ivy Bridge CPUs | |||
* 4x 1620W [https://store.supermicro.com/1620w-1u-pws-1k62p-1r.html Supermicro PWS-1K62P-1R] PSUs | |||
* [https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10QBI Supermicro X10QBi] motherboard with 8x memory risers | |||
===[[Lenovo T580|grimes]] (2018--)=== | ===[[Lenovo T580|grimes]] (2018--)=== | ||
[[File:T580-opened-prem2.jpg|right|thumb|uptowngirl, before she became uptowngrimes and finally just grimes, 2019-03-09]] | [[File:T580-opened-prem2.jpg|right|thumb|uptowngirl, before she became uptowngrimes and finally just grimes, 2019-03-09]] | ||
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** Replaced with 14x Seagate EXOS 18TB drives ($330 per) | ** Replaced with 14x Seagate EXOS 18TB drives ($330 per) | ||
* 10x various 4TB drives <b>(sold as a group for $250)</b> | * 10x various 4TB drives <b>(sold as a group for $250)</b> | ||
* [[Schwarzgerät_III# | * [[Schwarzgerät_III#Bill_of_materials|full bill of materials]]... | ||
* <b>a truly ostentatious machine. a vulgar display of power.</b> | * <b>a truly ostentatious machine. a vulgar display of power.</b> | ||