gslick
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Anyone not too far from the Seattle area interested in a 2 drawer, 4 processor AlphaServer ES47 system? Due to the size and weight of these this would be local pickup only. The two system drawers are meant to be rack mounted. They are approximately 18 inches wide x 7 inches tall x 36 inches deep, and weigh close to 100 pounds each.
These are pretty much the end of the Alpha line dating back to around 2004, with two 1GHz Alpha 21364 EV7 processors in each drawer and the two drawers can be cabled together into a single four processor system. (Four drawers cabled together would be an eight processor ES80 system). There was also a 1.15GHz version of the EV7, and the very last 1.3GHz EV7z version only shipped in the larger GS1280 system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_21364
As currently configured the system shown below has sixteen 512MB 20-1E87A-01 RIMMs in each drawer CPU block, for a total of 16GB of system memory in the two drawer system. That is half of the maximum memory capacity if each 512MB RIMM was replaced by a 1GB RIMM. Each drawer has a DE602 dual port 10/100 NIC and a DEGXA Gigabit NIC. Each drawer also has an ATI RADEON 7500 AGP which should be equivalent to a 3X-PBXGG-AB, but they are not original DEC labeled boards. One drawer currently has an Adaptec ASC-39160 which should be equivalent to a 3X-KZPEA-DB, but it is not an original DEC labeled board. Only one drawer has the DW-224E DVD drive. Both drawers currently have a 36GB SCSI drive installed and each has an empty slot for another drive.
Each drawer has two USB ports for a keyboard and mouse, a serial port interface to the management processor and the system console, and a private management NIC. In addition to connecting the two drawers together with the thick white cables with orange stripes, they need to be connected together on a private management LAN. In the configuration below I used an old Cisco RV180 VPN router that is obsolete but manages to get the job done. The WAN port can be configured to forward Telnet connections to the management and console interface on the private LAN.
The system currently boots OpenVMS 8.4 with DECwindows configured on the two RADEON 7500 at 1280x1024 with the XINERAMA extension spanning the two monitors as a single virtual X screen.
Anyway, in my opinion this is pretty cool hardware for someone that is into Alpha systems for running OpenVMS or TRU64, but I no longer have the time and space to have this set up to tinker with it myself.
I'm asking $200 for both system drawers in the configuration described above and detailed in the console log output attached below, with the two big cables that connect them together and the RV180, but without the monitors, keyboard, mouse, network hub, Digi terminal server shown below. If there is no local interest in this system eventually I might think about selling it off in parts, but I'd rather not do that, and that wouldn't be anytime soon.
Any questions, please ask.
These are pretty much the end of the Alpha line dating back to around 2004, with two 1GHz Alpha 21364 EV7 processors in each drawer and the two drawers can be cabled together into a single four processor system. (Four drawers cabled together would be an eight processor ES80 system). There was also a 1.15GHz version of the EV7, and the very last 1.3GHz EV7z version only shipped in the larger GS1280 system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_21364
As currently configured the system shown below has sixteen 512MB 20-1E87A-01 RIMMs in each drawer CPU block, for a total of 16GB of system memory in the two drawer system. That is half of the maximum memory capacity if each 512MB RIMM was replaced by a 1GB RIMM. Each drawer has a DE602 dual port 10/100 NIC and a DEGXA Gigabit NIC. Each drawer also has an ATI RADEON 7500 AGP which should be equivalent to a 3X-PBXGG-AB, but they are not original DEC labeled boards. One drawer currently has an Adaptec ASC-39160 which should be equivalent to a 3X-KZPEA-DB, but it is not an original DEC labeled board. Only one drawer has the DW-224E DVD drive. Both drawers currently have a 36GB SCSI drive installed and each has an empty slot for another drive.
Each drawer has two USB ports for a keyboard and mouse, a serial port interface to the management processor and the system console, and a private management NIC. In addition to connecting the two drawers together with the thick white cables with orange stripes, they need to be connected together on a private management LAN. In the configuration below I used an old Cisco RV180 VPN router that is obsolete but manages to get the job done. The WAN port can be configured to forward Telnet connections to the management and console interface on the private LAN.
The system currently boots OpenVMS 8.4 with DECwindows configured on the two RADEON 7500 at 1280x1024 with the XINERAMA extension spanning the two monitors as a single virtual X screen.
Anyway, in my opinion this is pretty cool hardware for someone that is into Alpha systems for running OpenVMS or TRU64, but I no longer have the time and space to have this set up to tinker with it myself.
I'm asking $200 for both system drawers in the configuration described above and detailed in the console log output attached below, with the two big cables that connect them together and the RV180, but without the monitors, keyboard, mouse, network hub, Digi terminal server shown below. If there is no local interest in this system eventually I might think about selling it off in parts, but I'd rather not do that, and that wouldn't be anytime soon.
Any questions, please ask.