Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three?

Fri Jun 13 18:49:28 MST 2008

 In 1996, there was a port of Quake to Linux. Its developer used the Quake source code without license, and patches were submitted back to id Software before it became an official port. Additionally, source code was used without license to create an early fan-created port to Mac OS. 1997 saw further porting efforts, with an IRIX port, called SGI Quake (link) done by Ed Hutchins on the SGI O2. SGI Quake has both OpenGL and software rendering systems. In addition, in 1997, the official port to Mac OS was done by MacSoft and a port of Quake to SPARC Solaris was released.

Egad, now I need donations from the PLUG to be the Solaris Sysadmin hosting a game, mail, DNS and J2EE development server environment?

<laugh>
I am sure I can spice twin the dryer..)....

Seriously now...

Anyone else interested in taking the beomouth, I can help them set it up..

Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:        All very good suggestions!

 Note I just opened the cabinets and noted that no storage is included...I havn't checked yet to see if any of them have an internal disk board or not. I might be able to scrounge up a couple of D130's 

 -Charles

 Lisa Kachold wrote: I have built and maintained Sun hardware like SunFire v490's E250's & E5500's.  E6600's.  (Although it's been a few years since I opened a 6600 "fridge" [as we called them at Nike]).

   I know well what they are.  They expand to seat 30 processors?  I am interested to know the specs (how many and which procs).  These are fine Sun hardware (although EOLife) UltraSparc processors and therefore would be great for many uses.  

 They would make fine Solaris 10 zone/container multi-zone DNS, Mail, and development servers: Glassfish or Weblogic (requires UltraSparc processors under Solaris), or Apache/Continuium/Maven/Tomcat/Ant can all run fast and furious (depending on memory and J2EE code).  And yes Oracle 10g would install fine in ONE zone, protected via SFC.  

 How much disk space?  Can you throw in an extra fiber channel 2540, so we can build up a respectable N1 cluster with multipath I/O to backend my SERIOUS web app farm?

 They would also make a fine Solaris 10 zone container test farm, whereby the SFC could limit processing and other resources for development of J2EE.   We could run a /jumpstart to /kickstart Linux/Solaris build in one zone, a DNS server in another, sendmail in another, web systems however it goes or whatever J2EE we are testing that week!

 Heck we could even run a Doom wad on them (sourceforge.net has C source version that should build under Solaris 10?)  

 We can run blastwave.org packages and install a fine Wiki, awstats, pretty much anything they have for Sun4u Ultra.

 Imagine screaming fast rock solid Linux but with a much deeper tcp/ip stack and actual swapping proc rather than rather than paging memory!

 Oh, and did I mention dtrace tools?

   Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:         I don't think they would work as game servers. They are Sun servers, they are not x86. even if you could get sparc-linux installed on them, no game server binaries would run on them.

 I've been flooded with requests for the servers, mostly for the wrong reasons, from everything from using them for wireless network testing, to using them for a "media center", to "just want to play with one".

 I think folks aren't realizing exactly what these are...they are literally 700+lbs cabinets that require 220v power. They will not fit in the trunk of a car, or an SUV. The actual server component is rack mounted inside and could be removed or powered seperately via 110v (the 220v is for the cabinet which includes integrated fans etc).

 I've been too busy since I posted to give more info, but I will try to hook them up soon to verify the RAM and CPU specs, as well as post some pics of them so you know what you are getting into.

 These would probably make a good Oracle database server, but its definitely not something you would want to plug in on your kitchen table just to play with...well maybe in the winter time, as they do make good space heaters :)

 -Charles

     alexanderhenry at cox.net wrote:            
Er...  Put me on the list, if it's still empty enough.  I'm having visions of co-lo'ed game servers.

---- Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote: 

We have some spare Sun 6500's (basically a 4500/5500 racked in its own 
cabinet).  If
 anyone is interested in them, let me know and I will find 
out the specs.  Hans can probably provide pictures of them. They are in 
a full Sun cabinet, so don't plan on putting one in the trunk of your car :)

-Charles
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