[Python-Dev] IBM P-690 server looking for a home

[Randall Walls]

Greetings,

The company I work for has an IBM P-690 server that is in the process of
being retired. It is still a viable server, and has seen almost 0 use (it
was our failover machine). Unfortunately for us, this machine has little to
no resale value, and will probably be junked. I'd rather it go to a good
home, and having taken advantage of the work of the python development
community for a number of years (we use python extensively in system admin
and database work), I saw this as an opportunity to give back a little.

So, If anyone is interested in this machine, please let me know. We are
looking at perhaps a November time frame for when it will be removed from
our remote site. The P690 is no small machine, it is the size of a full rack
and has 32 Power4 processors in it and takes (I believe) 2 or 3 phase 220
Volt power. It weighs nearly a ton. We are running AIX5.3 on it, but I
believe that the machine is capable of running a PowerPC flavor of Linux as
well. This would make a great test machine for python HPC modules or as a
community box where developers could test their code against a PowerPC
architecture. It has lots of life left and I'd rather see it put to use then
thrown away.

Thanks,

-- 
Randall
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