[57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home

[Calum Chisholm]

Tony informs me that he won't be able to use this machine as the processors
don't have built-in AMD-V support, so it looks like it's still up for grabs.

If anyone else is interested, give me a shout before tomorrow evening and
I'll bring it along to the space.

Cheers,
Calum


On 25 January 2015 at 15:52, Calum Chisholm <calum.chisholm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> It's an IBM Intellistation A, type 6217 (according to wikipedia).
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_IntelliStation#IntelliStation_A_Pro
>
> I'm not sure of the exact processor model, but I'll fire it up this
> evening and investigate.
>
> Cheers,
> Calum
>
>
> On 25 January 2015 at 15:43, Tony Travis <tony.travis at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 25/01/15 15:24, Calum Chisholm wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > As I'll soon be skipping the country, I'm having a bit of a clear-out.
>> >
>> > Needing a good home is my trusty IBM workstation. It's a few years old
>> > now (mid-2006 according to the sticker), but it was used until quite
>> > recently for crunching geoscience data within "a big oil company", and
>> > is still a surprisingly capable machine.
>> >
>> > It's a dual-opteron (8 core?) Intellistation A with 16gb RAM. I'll be
>> > removing the hard drives, but it has room for at least 4 internally, as
>> > well as 2 optical drives and plenty of card slots. The video board is a
>> > dual-head Nvidea Quattro - I'm not sure of the exact version, but
>> > presumably a fairly high-end card at the time it was produced given what
>> > it was used for.
>> >
>> > It's worth pointing out that it's not your typical PC World desktop -
>> > it's built like a brick (it's big and heavy!), and the fan noise can be
>> > quite loud, especially on start-up.
>> >
>> > If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll bring it along on Tuesday.
>> > It can be yours in return for a small donation to the space.
>>
>> Hi, Calum.
>>
>> I'm interested: Which model is it?
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>>   Tony.
>>
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