Rack mounted 4D/20

[Ted Wilcox]

In <HULTQUIS.90Aug27122210 at wk206.nas.nasa.gov> hultquis at nas.nasa.gov (Jeff P. M. Hultquist) writes:
>>   From: olson at anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
>>
>>   In <3209 at dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> buck at drax.gsfc.nasa.gov 
>>   (Loren (Buck) Buchanan) writes:
>>
>>   | A previous posting talked about the chassis of the PI, and that reminded
>>   | me that our customer would like to have a PI rack mounted rather than 
>>   | eating up floor space.  Has anyone done this?  Is it available from SGI?
>>
>>   It is certainly doable.  We built one (at least) for a trade show,
>>   but I don't think we or any of our Geometry Partners market such
>>   a machine.

>This would be a great idea.  At NASA-Ames, we have several 
>machine rooms which are full, but only below one's knees.
>We have been forced to build shelves in order to get decent
>use out of these rooms.  (Actually, we use old tables, and
>we place machines on top and underneath!)

Actually, over here in Personal Systems Division, we do sell rack
mount{ed|able} board sets.  Right now, we have a 9U 4D20 which has 1
board for the CPU and 1 board for graphics.  The graphics has basically
the same options you can get on a PI.

We have also got a 6U 4D25 which has 3 cards for the CPU and 2 cards for
the graphics.  The turbo option is not completed yet.  Also, I don't think
these have been FCC'ed (new verb!) yet.

I'll try to get a little more info on exactly what is available and whom
to contact for details.

>Disclaimer:  "I am not a rocket scientist."
Heh heh.  Very clever, this.
                   | In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped,
Ted.               | hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
ted at sgi.com        |    -Anonymous history student.