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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:42:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mystery technologies?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204121840490.65546-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0204121833110.13970-100000@jasper>

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> It offers "A collocated FreeBSD 4.5 server, with one IP, and 2 gigabytes
> of disk space" for $65 with 40Gb of transfer per month, tripple homed etc.
> 
> Sounds nice but... "Our steep discounts are made possible by technology
> that allows us to segment mainframe class servers into multiple,
> independent servers - each on a completely autonomous system." I don't
> believe I have heard of anyone porting FreeBSD to any big iron, perhaps
> some old Alpha mainframes? But I haven't heard of folks running multiple
> instances of the system on one box...

	We've got 16 HP Superdomes around here that do that. You can
segment the operating system into virtual computers. The really cool thing
is that you can dynamically assign CPU and memory to one paticular
"computer," as needed. 

	Rick


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