[evlatests] end of an era

[Jim Jackson]

I agree with Chuck, these machines have a long and important history 
here - they might make a good visitor center display.  Our visitor 
center needs more physical hardware on display.  I've been thinking 
this may also be a good use for some scrapped VLA and prototype EVLA hardware.

As for the power - from Socorro Electric's website, the cost per 
kilowatt hour for large commercial customers is 5.56 cents per KWH 
excluding any of the fuel cost surcharges we've all been noticing on 
our electric bills. That works out to about $240 a month to run the 
MODCOMPs.  Not as big as I expected but with current budget crunches, 
everything helps.

Cheers,
Jim



At 04:18 PM 4/24/2008, Ken Sowinski wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Bryan Butler wrote:
>
> >  the MODCOMPs have been shut off!
>
>Bryan seems to have stolen my thunder.
>
>The Modcomps were indeed powered down this at two 'o clock
>this afternoon.  Fred and I agreed to leave them intact for
>a week or two just in case I want to retrieve anything else,
>and then we will salvage the bits that might be useful and
>leave the rest for the trash bin.  After all the talk of
>wasting power I was disappointed to see that the UPS power
>output went from 103 kW to 97 kW when the Modcomps were
>turned off.  The correlator and chillers and pumps are
>clearly the largest part of the load.
>
>We must be close to a record for the longest running software.
>There were bits of code written by Barry, Gareth, Bill Randolph
>and me in 1974 that were still running only little changed
>when the MOdcomps were abandoned in June of 2007.
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