m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > 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. > Oh, and my users' jobs on those run for *days*, sometimes a week or more. mark