<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I work for Dell but I can't talk too much about the units<br>you are referring to. The launch date is in a couple of<br>weeks and then I can spill my guts :)<br><br>I can't talk about price since, to be honest, I don't really<br>know pricing (I'm a tech person). But let me give some<br>general hints. The unit you are speaking about has actually<br>been selling for a couple of years to larger customers.<br>There are more units of this in production use right now<br>than all of Supermicro and HP combined :) One success<br>I can mention since it's public is Wolfram's Alpha system<br>is powered by these units.<br><br>What is new with the "launch" is that before you had to<br>but them in quantities of 500-1,000. Now you can buy<br>one of them.<br><br>So if Dell was doing these 2 years ago, imagine
what is<br>coming next :) <br><br>Jeff<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> nate <centos@linuxpowered.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> centos@centos.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, March 9, 2010 7:37:04 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications<br></font><br>
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:<br><br>> Wow, pretty cool system. Can you tell about the pricing?<br><br>I don't think I can, but it is competitive with Dell and HP<br>as an example while the innovation put into the cloud rack<br>is far beyond anything Dell or HP offer to mere mortals.<br>Closest HP offers is the "SL" series of systems which are<br>pretty decent, though offer roughly half the density as<br>SGI for our particular application.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02a/15351-15351-3896136.html?jumpid=re_R295_prodexp/busproducts/computing-server/proliant-sl-scalable-sys&psn=servers">http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02a/15351-15351-3896136.html?jumpid=re_R295_prodexp/busproducts/computing-server/proliant-sl-scalable-sys&psn=servers</a></span><br><br>Dell is coming out with something new soon<br><br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/dell_cloudedge/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/dell_cloudedge/</a></span><br><br>I've seen them, and honestly aren't all that creative, very<br>similar to Supermicro Twin. They are decent for CPU and<br>memory intensive stuff, but not as good for (local) I/O<br>intensive. They seem pretty proud about these systems though<br>considering Supermicro has had similar stuff on the market<br>for quite some time now there isn't much to get excited about<br>IMO.<br><br>SGI(formerly Rackable) has been pretty aggressive in patenting<br>their designs, which is probably what lead to vendors like<br>Supermicro building their "Twin" systems.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/rs/2007/05082007.html">http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/rs/2007/05082007.html</a></span><br><br>Dell has a custom design division which they can probably
do<br>some pretty crazy things but I'm told they have a ~1,500<br>server minimum to get anything from that group.<br><br>nate<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:CentOS@centos.org" href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a></span><br></div></div>
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