[2257] in Release_7.7_team
Re: SGI -- AFS Status 5/11/00
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Murphy)
Mon May 15 09:32:10 2000
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:32:27 -0400
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: Brian Murphy <bmurphy@po12.mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU, marion@MIT.EDU
Bill,
I imagine that it depends somewhat on how much Polaris will charge for the
chip but if it's anything other than free, how confident are you in SGI's
(via Bob) estimate in having the patch ready in time for Summer Deploy?
Also do you have the part number for the new rev chip?
-Brian
>I have been in contact with SGI about hardware upgrade of the R5000 CPU
>chip. The Branch Service manager will be in touch with me Monday or
>Tuesday with pricing and availability. If we had support for the
>hardware directly with SGI, it would be a free upgrade. I took the
>unusual step of getting hold of the person at Polaris who handles the
>MIT contract and briefed her on the situation. She too promises to get
>back to me
>on Monday with more information on pricing and availability of hardware
>upgrades.
>
>I have been in contact with Transarc and indirectly with SGI software
>personnel. Transarc says they will begin working with our SGI friends
>on Monday. Through Bob Basch, I have heard that our SGI friends
>currently feel confident that a software patch can be crafted in time
>for our summer deployment. SGI is focusing on crafting a clean fix
>in cooperation with Transarc rather than on doing an SGI-only kludge
>to get IRIX 6.5.7 working for MIT. Bob and I will be monitoring this
>process to make sure it is going to succeed in our timeframe.
>
>I expect to know more by the middle of next week.
>
>-wdc
