Wonder if we could get this donated to AMRAD's efforts?

[bbruhns at erols.com]

Simple.  I'll lease a truck for a week or two, and make a few trips.  Then maybe I can store it in my unused bedroom?

   Bob, WA3WDR

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Sender: tacos-bounces+wa3wdr=amrad.org at amrad.orgDate: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:45:11 
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Subject: Re: Wonder if we could get this donated to AMRAD's efforts?

If they would give it to us as FOB, how do we afford to arrange for the 
"two dozen tractor trailer trucks" to bring it here?  Where do we put it?

It looks like a giant array of rack mount computers that could be broken 
down into a bunch of smaller arrays.  We could each have our own 
supercomputer.

Each of us needs to find an application up to the power of our 
subdivided supercomputer and a staff and electricity and cooling to run it.

Finally, we will find all the hard drives removed and we will need to 
buy new ones.

An excellent discussion of Roadrunner is on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner

Somehow, I just don't see it all going to the scrap yard.

Frank K0BRA

On 3/31/2013 7:12 PM, Phil wrote:
> Yeah, and then there's always the inevitable rider: "Buyer collects."
>
> Phil M1GWZ
>
>
> On 31 Mar 2013, at 17:06, wb5mmb wrote:
>
>> By the time security finishes scrubbing it there will not be much left that is usable.
>>      Sandy
>>     WB5MMB
>>
>>
>> At 10:53 AM 3/31/2013, you wrote:
>>> Here is a good computer being decommissioned and put out to pasture (aka the recycling pile).  Wonder if we could get this donated to AMRAD's efforts?
>>>
>>> <http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/end-line-roadrunner-supercomputer-1C9144294>http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/end-line-roadrunner-supercomputer-1C9144294
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