Andrew Holway wrote: >> >> Does anyone have any preferred *vendors* - as I say, we used to like >> Penguin. Silicon Mechanics? AVADirect? I'm just throwing out names here >> I've run into while googling. > > How many of these are you after? The budget's limited - maybe one, maybe two, but next year, possibly more. As a comparison, I've got a cluster with a head node and 22 compute nodes: one 12 core, 10 or 11 48 core, and the rest 64 core.... This is for serious HPC. mark