Re: Power usage was Sparcs for pickup in Columbus OH

We recently decommissioned a perfectly working 32 way SGI Origin 2000 
machine with 32gb ram because the power/cooling wasn't worth it when 
compared to a new cluster of quad core linux machines that consume a 
similar amount of power but do many times the workload.

Julie Baumler wrote:
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Cody Swanson wrote:
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>> I can't imaging the V880 is power efficient. We have a bunch of them 
>> at work and they're beasts.
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> We figured out at a previous job that if we bought a newer more energy 
> efficent system we'd be saving money within 2 years.  That was before 
> "go green" energy saving systems came around.  Sadly, the money for 
> computers came out of a whole different divisions budget as the money 
> for data center power and we couldn't convince the later folks to fork 
> over some money.  I should have brought it up at a public board 
> meeting....
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> Juli
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