[tech] Ultra Enterprise 6000 upgrades

[Adrian Chadd]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:45:52PM +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > To my mind, we would be better served by purchasing a smaller number of
> > the faster components (allowing us to easily purchase more later on)
> [...]
> 
> I think you're right. Besides, the price and the availability is good
> right now and it makes best use of our power/cooling capacity. The
> UltraSPARC II's with big fat caches will use significantly more power
> than the UltraSPARC I's.

UCC should write a letter to UCS/ITS asking for colocation for your
E6000. Mention that its being used for quite prominent open source
development (squid, gnome, etc) and it'll look good for the university.
Say you don't require bandwidth, just power, housing and cooling.







adrian