The Ware for November 2008 is shown below. Click on the photo for a much larger version.
This is again a reader submitted ware. I have Bobby Woods-Corwin, one of my old college roomies, to thank for submitting this photo. This is actually a very pretty board, and I have other shots of it but I think they would give away a little too much about where it comes from to make this an interesting competition.
Apologies for the lateness of this Ware…there’s this little show called CES coming up and pretty much every moment I have is being spent preparing a certain demo for the show. If you happen to be going to CES this year, stop by booth Central 14448 during the afternoons, you might find me there…or maybe you can help me look for a stiff drink later in the night.
I better get the next ware queued up already — December is almost over! Plus, I’m behind on judging the previous months’ ware, but I promise to get to that — prizes will get distributed, albeit a little late.
Not really much to identify; but if those are memory slots, I’d certainly guess “High-end SSD”. Maybe one of the TMS RamSan systems (http://www.superssd.com/products_sub.htm).
The blue plastic and the edges of the case look IBM to me. This looks like the memory controller from an older RS/6000 (Like a Power3 generation box) box or an AS/400.
Agreed, looks like IBM hardware to me, from some “smaller mainframe” or similar.
Reminds me of this IBM z800 CPU module that I took apart:
http://www.yggdrasil.tv/galeria/albums/album53/Imagen_046.jpg
It wasn’t working after transport, so we resorted to unplug-and-replug-everything. Sadly, it didn’t work. This was at a LANparty, which I believe is the only one in the world that runs a bunch of services on on-site mainframes, in a mini-datacenter set up for the occasion!
Not having any luck trying to narrow down the Name That Ware, though.
Marcan, I’d be curious to know which LAN party that is.
Not a RS/6000 : http://img.ruten.com.tw/s2/2/f1/78/11080505606520_11.jpg [MRC IBM] RS6000 7013-J40 IBM RS/6000 Enterprise Server Model J40
Does not appear to be an AS/400 part either. too large.
Almost appears to be an SGI Altix to me.
I’m gonna go with a product from his current company, SiCortex.
Look sorta familiar?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=455
Now, which model? With nothing else to go by, I’m guessing it’s the same as pictured above, the SC5832.
How about a SiCortex 27-Node computing blade?
Pics on page 2 of:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/20/sicortex_sc06/
Pics on page 2 of:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/20/sicortex_sc06/
Looks familiar?
Third try: here’s a good pic for comparison:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/20/sicortex_sc06/page2.html
I was wondering why my searches failed for 27 processor boards. I guess they call them nodes as opposed to processors.
@Andrew
That’d be Euskal Encounter (http://www.euskalencounter.org/).
Sounds like Joe nailed it :)
Hey there.. off topic, but could you help out someone with an Alpha Prototype Chumby? I have HW 0.9.1 SW 0.9.2 and wondered if there was any possible way to compile a kernel that will allow the latest flash lite player on the Alpha model.
Am I out of luck? Thanks for your time!
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A toaster.
Looks like an SGI Altix to me.
Amazing stuff thanx :)