Re: Power usage was Sparcs for pickup in Columbus OH

Ben Lewis wrote:
> > Everything that those machines did is now being performed by the 
> V880 running Solaris 10 with about 6 zones.
>
> Reminds me of a quote I read in a book about computer graphics :-
>
> "A Cray is a real headache. This one had a $12,000 a month electric 
> bill, and the maintenance and support bill for the "Crayons," the 
> people who  attended to it and kept it working, came to like $50,000 a 
> month. It's like a 747 jetliner, if it's not in the air with seats 
> full you're loosing money"
>
>     David Sleg - Digital Productions (who did the CG scenes for "The 
> Last Starfighter")
>
> Best regards
>
> Ben
>
Thanks Ben, but the power consumption of an 880 is not quite in that 
class :-)