IBM Powerstation

[tunkaflux]

This looks like an interesting machine: "http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/index.php?submit=hardware&submitimg[hardware][powerstation]"


{Edit by moderator josehill: for urls like the one above, you might consider converting it to a tinyurl, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/686xjd }

[D-EJ915]

Not a bad price, too bad you more than likely couldn't run AIX on it.

Here's a regular link.

[toxygen]

Not a bad price, too bad you more than likely couldn't run AIX on it.

Here's a regular link.

to me it looks like rebranded ibm workstation. imo aix would run on it

[Ebbi]

This seems to be nothing more than an IBM IntelliStation POWER 185 Express:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/intellist ... specs.html

[toxygen]

This seems to be nothing more than an IBM IntelliStation POWER 185 Express:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/intellist ... specs.html

not true, the machine in link is quad core for ~1900$

the ibm intellistation power 185 express is either single or dual core.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/intellist ... rowse.html
also the price $5k+ is quite different

[Ebbi]

Of course they do not sell identical machines, but the base is the same.
They just put in newer dual core CPUs, similar to Apple's G5:
http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?p ... order=DESC

[tunkaflux]

If only they were available in Europe

[hamei]

{Edit by moderator josehill: for urls like the one above, you might consider converting it to a tinyurl, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/686xjd }

I don't think you need to anymore, Jose. I've noticed that with this newer version of phpBBS any long url's one enters automatically get abbreviated in the middle.

Sample :

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xerox-Phaser-860_W0 ... dZViewItem

that one's as long as a US passenger train but should show up with the middle ellided. (Is ellided a word ?)

[D-EJ915]

{Edit by moderator josehill: for urls like the one above, you might consider converting it to a tinyurl, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/686xjd }

I don't think you need to anymore, Jose. I've noticed that with this newer version of phpBBS any long url's one enters automatically get abbreviated in the middle.

Sample :

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xerox-Phaser-860_W0 ... dZViewItem

that one's as long as a US passenger train but should show up with the middle ellided. (Is ellided a word ?)

it's ellipsis, so ellipsised? I don't think you can turn it into a verb. Anyway, the weird formatting prevented it from being automatically made into a URL anyway, this board does do that right? I can never remember

[josehill]

I don't think you need to anymore, Jose. I've noticed that with this newer version of phpBBS any long url's one enters automatically get abbreviated in the middle. {stuff deleted}

it's ellipsis, so ellipsised? I don't think you can turn it into a verb. Anyway, the weird formatting prevented it from being automatically made into a URL anyway, this board does do that right? I can never remember

Hi hamei,
I changed the url not because of length, but because the url contained brackets, like "[" and "]," which phpBB misinterprets as BBCode. I guess the other option would have been to disable BBCode on the post, but the thought didn't occur to me at the time. In any event, I should have been clearer about what I meant by "urls like the one above."

PS. hamei, ellided isn't an English word (though it suggests something Icelandic), but elided is. Almost works, too.

[kenashkov]

Well the motherboard is for sure different from the IBM one - this has PCI-E slots. As well they say that it supports up to 32G RAM, while 185 supports up to 8G (or IBM just dont support 4G modules? and have the same amount of 8 memory slots?).
I was keeping an eye on the YDL powerstation for a while and I notice now that they changed the video adapter to a Radeon one. I'm 100% sure that some weeks before (before the shipping started) it was XGI. They had some open source drivers for it and this was part of the advertisiment - that everything was open.

[D-EJ915]

It certainly was that other brand's card before, the X10 or something like that. ATi under ruling from AMD opened up its drivers although I don't know much more than that.

[toxygen]

Can anyone compare horsepower of YDL powerstation to any xeon/opteron comparable station?
is powerstation worth money?

[PymbleSoftware]

Can anyone compare horsepower of YDL powerstation to any xeon/opteron comparable station?
is powerstation worth money?

By what metric do you measure performance...?
Drystones, graphics, I/O throughput, database transactions per second, etc...?

I don't have a YDL powerstation but I do have a POWER 4+ 1.45GHz running Fedora Core 9, if you want me to run a specific benchmark, I'd be happy to post it.

It seems amazing fast on somethings and glacial on others ... POST takes like 5 minutes.

RR.

[toxygen]

By what metric do you measure performance...?
Drystones, graphics, I/O throughput, database transactions per second, etc...?

I was mainly interested in compile times and I/O.

I don't have a YDL powerstation but I do have a POWER 4+ 1.45GHz running Fedora Core 9, if you want me to run a specific benchmark, I'd be happy to post it.

maybe this one: http://www.phystech.com/ftp/ubench-0.32.tar.gz

It seems amazing fast on somethings and glacial on others ... POST takes like 5 minutes.
RR.

you mean HTTP POST or which POST?

marian