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Gary is an HP RX8640.  It's an itanium system built on an SX2000 (superdome) chipset.  It was built in 2006.
Gary has 16 sockets distributed over 4 cell boards.  Each socket has a 9140DN, giving it a total of 32 cores and 64 threads.  It's clock speed is 1.6 Ghz.
Gary has 128GB of ram, courtesy of 64 DIMMs.  Gary has no onboard storage other than a boot drive.
 
Basically, it's a huge 4KW resistor that can run linux.
 
 
- Make a lot of noise
- Increase your power bill considerably
- Trip a breaker
- Act as a heated chair
- Roll around.  Gary has wheels.  It's a lot of fun.
 
On a more serious note ... It's a big machine with lots of pretty slow processors and a pretty big chunk of memory.
It runs linux quite well.  It's a pretty good machine actually, but it uses too much power, so i don't run it very often.  It needs about 3.8 KW to run.
 
Nope.  Gary doesn't have a framebuffer.
 
Fun fact: Gary is not vulnerable to any of the speculative execution related bugs like meltdown, spectre, etc, since IA64 chips are not superscalar in nature.  IA64 is built on a principle called EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing).  It relies heavily on the compiler to optimize the binaries so that the cpu can execute as many operations as possible at any time.  It is in fact the opposite of what cpus are nowadays.

Well it's not really a "part", but i bring you Gary
 

Well it's not really a "part", but i bring you Gary
 

Gary is an HP RX8640.  It's an itanium system built on an SX2000 (superdome) chipset.  It was built in 2006.
Gary has 16 sockets distributed over 4 cell boards.  Each socket has a 9140DN, giving it a total of 32 cores and 64 threads.  It's clock speed is 1.6 Ghz.
Gary has 128GB of ram, courtesy of 64 DIMMs.  Gary has no onboard storage other than a boot drive.
 
Basically, it's a huge 4KW resistor that can run linux.
 
 
- Make a lot of noise
- Increase your power bill considerably
- Trip a breaker
- Act as a heated chair
- Roll around.  Gary has wheels.  It's a lot of fun.
 
On a more serious note ... It's a big machine with lots of pretty slow processors and a pretty big chunk of memory.
It runs linux quite well.  It's a pretty good machine actually, but it uses too much power, so i don't run it very often.  It needs about 3.8 KW to run.
 
Nope.  Gary doesn't have a framebuffer.
 
Fun fact: Gary is not vulnerable to any of the speculative execution related bugs like meltdown, spectre, etc, since IA64 chips are not superscalar in nature.  IA64 is built on a principle called EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing).  It relies heavily on the compiler to optimize the binaries so that the cpu can execute as many operations as possible at any time.  It is in fact the opposite of what cpus are nowadays.

16KW in a single server room? i imagine that got quite toasty 😛
tough i bet atleast one of them was for redundancy?

An overkill Doom console? 

yes, he does look pretty loud.
 
what was a system like this used for in it's day?

Well it's not really a "part", but i bring you Gary
 

Gary is an HP RX8640.  It's an itanium system built on an SX2000 (superdome) chipset.  It was built in 2006.
Gary has 16 sockets distributed over 4 cell boards.  Each socket has a 9140DN, giving it a total of 32 cores and 64 threads.  It's clock speed is 1.6 Ghz.
Gary has 128GB of ram, courtesy of 64 DIMMs.  Gary has no onboard storage other than a boot drive.
 
Basically, it's a huge 4KW resistor that can run linux.
 
 
- Make a lot of noise
- Increase your power bill considerably
- Trip a breaker
- Act as a heated chair
- Roll around.  Gary has wheels.  It's a lot of fun.
 
On a more serious note ... It's a big machine with lots of pretty slow processors and a pretty big chunk of memory.
It runs linux quite well.  It's a pretty good machine actually, but it uses too much power, so i don't run it very often.  It needs about 3.8 KW to run.
 
Nope.  Gary doesn't have a framebuffer.
 
Fun fact: Gary is not vulnerable to any of the speculative execution related bugs like meltdown, spectre, etc, since IA64 chips are not superscalar in nature.  IA64 is built on a principle called EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing).  It relies heavily on the compiler to optimize the binaries so that the cpu can execute as many operations as possible at any time.  It is in fact the opposite of what cpus are nowadays.

Well it's not really a "part", but i bring you Gary
 

Well it's not really a "part", but i bring you Gary
 

Well it's not really a "part", but i bring you Gary
 

It gets pretty bad for some people. Keep an eye on it. 

AAANNND two factor now enabled. I hope you get better BTW! To your health. 

What about "peepee13?

What about "peepee13?

Maybe i should have picked "p12+1"

Plus signs can cause issues.  Maybe “p12plus1”

Maybe i should have picked "p12+1"

This is one reason why I chose a long weirdass username.  If I was “bob03” or something it would cause all kinds of issues with “bob08”

Here's a screenshot for your viewing pleasure.
 

Here's a screenshot for your viewing pleasure.
 

You sure? O_o
 
I got an email ...
 
etc etc

Something like this?

Yup, that's the case for many people.
Running linux on a desktop/laptop makes it a lot more useful for many things, as well as more secure, however ... it also makes it a lot less useful for other things like gaming, availability of commercial software, etc.
I use open source software exclusively, both for work and privately, but not everyone will have that option.
 
If you can afford to leave windows behind, then i strongly urge you to give linux a go.  You will not be disappointed.