[CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

Fri Jul 16 18:54:20 UTC 2010
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Have been looking at the specs of Boston Venom T4000.
>
> Boston Venom T4000
> http://www.bostonindia.in/products/bos-t4000.aspx
>
> I could not figure out the lowest base price points, HA features and KVM support
>    

is your goal a "server" or "supercomputing"?  all that tesla stuff sorta 
says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'.

supercomputer clusters eschew HA in favor of having many independent 
compute units in a loose cluster that can tolerate any node dying by 
simply reassigning its last work unit to another node.  only the 
persistent storage (usually a SAN or a clustered file system), and the 
cluster controller needs conventional HA.


if your goal is a 'server', then something from here would likely be 
more suitable.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241475.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/rack/index.html
http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/rack_optimized/ct.aspx?refid=rack_optimized&s=bsd&cs=04 
<http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/rack_optimized/ct.aspx?refid=rack_optimized&s=bsd&cs=04>
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/

along with the appropriate storage etc, depending on your requirements.


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