[tech] Ultra Enterprise 6000 upgrades

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:58:07AM -0700, Greg Wolters wrote:
> Nick,
> 
> It appears as though you need to upgrade the clock boards / CPU memory
> boards / CPU's /  and some I/O Boards
> 
> You have one usable CPU memory board and one useable I/O
> 
> Now the question is......how many CPU's and at what speed do you wish to
> run?
> 
> Greg

We're flexible on that. A new clock board seems vital, but I gather we
could, for example, take 16 or 20 x 336MHz X2560A 501-4363's or 400MHz
CPUs, (with only 2MiB of cache in use) without changing boards.

The second option would be to buy more 501-4312 CPU memory boards -
still an 83MHz gigaplane, but we could use the full cache of 336MHz or
400MHz CPUs.

Finally, we can go for a 100MHz backplane - we need 501-4882 CPU memory
boards and could make good use of X2580A's.

So - in quantities of about 10 boards and 20 CPUs - what do you have
available?

Nick.

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