I work for Dell but I can't talk too much about the units you are referring to. The launch date is in a couple of weeks and then I can spill my guts :) I can't talk about price since, to be honest, I don't really know pricing (I'm a tech person). But let me give some general hints. The unit you are speaking about has actually been selling for a couple of years to larger customers. There are more units of this in production use right now than all of Supermicro and HP combined :) One success I can mention since it's public is Wolfram's Alpha system is powered by these units. What is new with the "launch" is that before you had to but them in quantities of 500-1,000. Now you can buy one of them. So if Dell was doing these 2 years ago, imagine what is coming next :) Jeff ________________________________ From: nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> To: centos at centos.org Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 7:37:04 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Wow, pretty cool system. Can you tell about the pricing? I don't think I can, but it is competitive with Dell and HP as an example while the innovation put into the cloud rack is far beyond anything Dell or HP offer to mere mortals. Closest HP offers is the "SL" series of systems which are pretty decent, though offer roughly half the density as SGI for our particular application. 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 Dell is coming out with something new soon http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/dell_cloudedge/ I've seen them, and honestly aren't all that creative, very similar to Supermicro Twin. They are decent for CPU and memory intensive stuff, but not as good for (local) I/O intensive. They seem pretty proud about these systems though considering Supermicro has had similar stuff on the market for quite some time now there isn't much to get excited about IMO. SGI(formerly Rackable) has been pretty aggressive in patenting their designs, which is probably what lead to vendors like Supermicro building their "Twin" systems. http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/rs/2007/05082007.html Dell has a custom design division which they can probably do some pretty crazy things but I'm told they have a ~1,500 server minimum to get anything from that group. nate _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100309/5c2173ad/attachment-0004.html>