Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[Ken Seefried via cctalk]

> Heck, I'd be fascinated to talk to anyone who purchased
> the machines during their lifespan (1997-2001) and could tell me what you
> used them for.

Not the e10k, but Cingular Wireless used clustered e15k's as Oracle
database engines.  Dozens of them.  Very impressive performance.

KJ

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[Jerry Kemp]

then HP purchases SGI

Reference:



Jerry


On 02/23/17 02:19 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:05:04PM -0700, Robert Ollerton wrote:

Celerity Computing 6000  (multi processor scalar and vector;; San Diego, CA.
bought out by Floating Point Systems.
then bought out by Cray


then SGI bought Cray whic sold the "Superserver" part to SUN. SGI put
their money into the Origin2k and didn't see the need/potential in
Starfire which became the E10k

The rest of Cray became "Cray Research" which was sold to Tera Computer
Company which was renamed Cray Inc.

(SGI was later bought by Rackable which was renamed to SGI)

/P

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[Pontus Pihlgren]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:05:04PM -0700, Robert Ollerton wrote:
> Celerity Computing 6000  (multi processor scalar and vector;; San Diego, CA.
> bought out by Floating Point Systems.
> then bought out by Cray

then SGI bought Cray whic sold the "Superserver" part to SUN. SGI put 
their money into the Origin2k and didn't see the need/potential in 
Starfire which became the E10k

The rest of Cray became "Cray Research" which was sold to Tera Computer 
Company which was renamed Cray Inc.

(SGI was later bought by Rackable which was renamed to SGI)

/P

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[Robert Ollerton]

Celerity Computing 6000  (multi processor scalar and vector;; San Diego, CA.
bought out by Floating Point Systems.
then bought out by Cray
then bough out by SUN.


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Steve Hatle <sha...@nfldinet.com> wrote:

>
>
>  Original Message 
> Subject: Re: Sun E1 Historical Enquiry
> From: Jonathan KatzThere was a guy who I used to talk to who was on one
> of the
> Sun lists and was based in the top-tier hardware development/software
> development out of San Diego, and then later he moved east, but I
> forgot who that was.
>
> ==
>
> I know who it is - we're still in contact once in a while. I plan to
> ping him and see if he's interested in participating. I also have
> another friend who drove a number of E10Ks for a large company here in
> the Twin Cities.
>
> Steve
>
>
>

RE: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[Steve Hatle]

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Sun E1 Historical Enquiry
From: Jonathan KatzThere was a guy who I used to talk to who was on one
of the
Sun lists and was based in the top-tier hardware development/software
development out of San Diego, and then later he moved east, but I
forgot who that was.

==

I know who it is - we're still in contact once in a while. I plan to
ping him and see if he's interested in participating. I also have
another friend who drove a number of E10Ks for a large company here in
the Twin Cities.

Steve

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[Jonathan Katz]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:53 PM, JP Hindin  wrote:
> All this talk of favourite machines and getting into the hobby has gotten me
> amped up to work on my E10k. The E10k was always the "coolest" machine for
> me - largely due to the timing of my entry into the industry.

It started as a Cray system; have you read up on the CS6400? The E10K
was the next derivation of that.

I deployed them as a Sun PS engineer; towards the end of the life they
were giving the inventory away, almost (buy a SF6800 and get an E10K
"free".) There was a guy who I used to talk to who was on one of the
Sun lists and was based in the top-tier hardware development/software
development out of San Diego, and then later he moved east, but I
forgot who that was.

Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

[JP Hindin]

Greetings to all;

All this talk of favourite machines and getting into the hobby has gotten 
me amped up to work on my E10k. The E10k was always the "coolest" machine 
for me - largely due to the timing of my entry into the industry.


I recently read Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine and was pondering the 
history of the E10k and its start in Cray Research Inc and its subsequent 
sale to Sun. The asset transfer that must've taken place and then how Sun 
turned it around to make it a Sun product and made its impact on the 
market has to be a fascinating story too.


I would love to talk to anyone who was involved in the development, 
transfer, initial rollout and support of the E10k - from both CRI's and 
Sun's perspective. Heck, I'd be fascinated to talk to anyone who purchased 
the machines during their lifespan (1997-2001) and could tell me what you 
used them for.


If you only know of someone that was involved that you might think would 
be interested in talking to me, please pass my eMail address on.


Maybe if I get a big response I could put something together, if there was 
suitable interest of course. But at this point, I'm mostly just 
fascinated for myself.


Thanks to all!

 - JP