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Fangorn found a new home

Wednesday, August 27. 2008

There is a new resident in my home office. I´m jumpstarting fangorn at the moment. fangorn is a Sun Ultra 60 workstation (dual-proc UltraSPARC II system with 450 MHz on each proc and 1,5 GB memory). The Ultra60 line had it´s GA in 1998. This was shortly after my first contact with Sun systems. I purchased it for a few euros from a colleague to rescue it from his cellar and to have a multi-proc SPARC system for some testing. I think, fangorn is a good name for such an venerable system.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 18:40 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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The U60 are nice machines, especially the "Creator 3D" versions. I got one of those from the company I'm working for. The workstation was about to be destroyed but one of my colleagues thought that it someone might be interested in taking this machine home.
Right he was...
Fangorn is a nice name for a machine. Reminds me of a E10K cluster named after some dwarfs from Lord of the Rings I came across while I did E10K Remote Monitoring.

#1 Christian Walther (Homepage) on 2008-08-27 20:02 (Reply)

Writing this comment on a Sun Ultra6 with 2x450MHz und 2 GB RAM. It is a fine hardware.

#2 Ralph Gessner on 2008-08-28 09:08 (Reply)

My old Sun Ultra 10

is called niacin.

#3 therek (Homepage) on 2008-08-28 10:23 (Reply)

I called it fangorn (sindarin for Treebeard) because it´s the oldest active machine in my home office.

#3.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-08-28 11:42 (Reply)

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