one last alpha

[jhu]

alpha, we hardly knew yeh. oh well, time to get back to my 10 dual-node amd render-farm.

 

[HappyCracker]

Darn. Well I guess that means I can get my hands on an EV7z even sooner beings that they're only $97K. But all seriousness aside even the Alphas from EV6 days are still awesome performers. Look at the Top100 site of supercomputers; most of the top machines are Alpha clusters. I've heard from numerous people that work with the Alphas that they kick Sun's SPARCs around like soccer balls; better design I guess. I'd still like to get my hands on an Alpha but the Suns sell for so much less and are far less rare on ebay. The DEC Multia intrigues me and they pop up from time to time but have thermal problems.

 

[Sunner]

Yet another great product that's the victim of incompetent management
I guess maybe the VAX/VMS combo was a little too good, making people reluctant to upgrade to Alpha/OSF.

 

[Yanagi]

Had alpha machines on my last job. Man those were fast, i wish we'd have intel and AMD making a new cpu architecture similar to those.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Yanagi
Had alpha machines on my last job. Man those were fast, i wish we'd have intel and AMD making a new cpu architecture similar to those.

AMD did license the EV6 bus for the Athlons.

Alpha is one of the architectures that makes me wish I had a lot more money.

 

[jhu]

is there any way to somehow plug an alpha into an amd socket and have it work?

 

[HappyCracker]

No they are completely different

 

[ViRGE]

*plays Taps*