I was in the area and took a look at this:
http://vintagetech.com/sales/Big%20Iron/IBM%20Scalable%20Power%20Parallel%20System%209076.JPG.
The seller is Sellam Ismail who started Vintage Computer Fair but is
digging out of some bad times. I ultimately couldn't convince myself to
take it home as the frame is pretty large (23" rack width). It looked reasonably complete, there is a HiPS switch and as far as I can tell all
needed cables. One of the nodes is missing a CPU board and HiPS card.
Both seem to be available on eBay (CPU card is the same as 7012-390 etc)
and could be sourced cheap w/a little patience. The nodes are 66MHz
POWER2, looks like 128 to 256MB RAM. Inside is set up for 68-pin SCSI
disks just like newer 7012s.
You'd want a front end, something like a 7011 or 7012 or even something
newer like a 43p to hook up to the serial chain and control everything,
but the nodes are self sufficient.
I thought I had PSSP software stashed away on my server but it looks
like it's just documentation. You don't need it to use the machines or
HiPS, but it provides some of the cluster management a typical setup
would have had for full effect.
It's a cool setup, an ancestor to things like Google/Racakble servers,
Hadoop clusters, etc. If someone rescues it, feel free to ping me for assistance.
Regards,
Kevin
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