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derSammler<p><strong>Ist immer noch zu haben!</strong></p><p>Hat jemand Interesse an einem <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AlphaServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlphaServer</span></a> 1000A? Der steht bei einem meiner Kontakte noch rum und könnte bei Cochem/Zell abgeholt werden. Leider sind bis auf die CPU keine Karten mehr drin, auch kein RAM und keine Festplatten. Ist aber eine gute Basis für einen Wiederaufbau.</p><p>Bei Interesse bitte eine private Nachricht schreiben, ich leite den Kontakt zwecks Preis-/Terminabsprache dann weiter.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alpha</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
nico-e<p>DEC 3000 800S zum Verkauf, sonst muss sie leider entsorgt werden</p><p><a href="https://dresden.network/tags/retrocompter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocompter</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/alphaserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alphaserver</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/serverstuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serverstuff</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/sale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sale</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/computermuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computermuseum</span></a> <a href="https://dresden.network/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/305926436330" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ebay.de/itm/305926436330</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stephen Hoffman<p>Interesting write up on Oxide Computer in El Reg:</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/oxide_3000lb_blade_server/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2024/02/16/oxi</span><span class="invisible">de_3000lb_blade_server/</span></a></p><p>Oxide is aiming at on-premises cloud, and at racks.</p><p>This approach is what has become of server consolidation.</p><p>Particularly for your “base load” computing.</p><p>Racks are an interesting and oft-neglected topic in IT.</p><p>The enterprise vendors I'm familiar with always treated the racks and server and server rack mounting largely as an afterthought. At best.</p><p>And enterprise rack gear was too often awful. At best.</p><p>Lone exception: Apple had some of the best rack gear and rack mounting gear with Xserve, but then they got out of that business.</p><p>Much of what else I've met has been some combination of atrocious, inconsistent, and unavailable.</p><p>And getting stuff mounted was a struggle, absent server lifts or other tooling.</p><p>And the racks are, as Cantrill states, pretty much the fundamental unit for enterprise servers these days.</p><p>The Marvel-class AlphaServer GS1280 sorta-kinda did do an integrated design with their racks, and the whole of that computer and its constituent parts were all managed and maintained utilizing the in-cabinet network and the in-cabinet crossbars, but Marvel itself never became a unit of server construction, and while it had power distribution within the rack, it was never integrated with the data center power. The Marvel-class management UI and error management definitely needed work, though.</p><p><a href="https://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschulen/urz_hpc/marvel/marvel_performance.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschule</span><span class="invisible">n/urz_hpc/marvel/marvel_performance.pdf</span></a></p><p>The folks at HP and later as HPE went after blades hard, but they seemingly never adapted those designs to whole racks. Just big rack-mount blade boxes (c7000 was 10U, peaked at ~240 kg), and the HP/HPE BladeSystem communications interconnects and mezzanines were a whole ‘nother area of complexity. After the BladeSystem boxes faded, then with Moonshot and Apollo and some other servers.</p><p>Some vendors dabbled in containerized data centers, but seldom racks.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_</span><span class="invisible">data_center</span></a></p><p>Yes, some servers were configured for carrier-grade installs, too.</p><p>Oxide looks quite interesting, given the scale and scope if the integration they're aiming for, and not that I have anything that will likely ever need that much compute power. Looks like a fun development project, too.</p><p>cc/ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bcantrill</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hpe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hpe</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/alphaserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alphaserver</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/digitalequipment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalequipment</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/digitalequipmentcorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalequipmentcorp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/oxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxide</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/oxidecomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxidecomputer</span></a></p>