Andrew Holway wrote:
On 29 May 2014 16:26, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I'm working on finding some new compute nodes. What I'm looking for is a 64 core box, with room enough for a lot of RAM. I can get it from Dell, or HP (bleah! a 4U box), but I need to have three quotes, y'know. We've gotten a lot from Penguin in the past, but they're all Supermicro, and we've had a *lot* of problems with the 64 core boxes, so I'm looking for another vendor.
Whats wrong with the SuperMicro 64 core boxes? I have never seen any problems with them. I assume you mean AMD, in which case the IPMI sucks but other than that.....
They're crap. We've had to send a number of them - we've got something like a couple dozen of them, and at least 4 of them had to be sent back, and got a m/b replacement after they verified, with our test, why they crashed, and one or two got sent back *twice*.
Dell PowerEdge R815's are pretty ok.
I agree. But I do need a third quote, though I suppose I could get a reseller along with Dell and the HP. I was sort of looking for anther vendor that's got 64 cores in 1U (the Dell's 2U).
mark