[CentOS] OEM suggestions

Fri May 30 12:19:23 UTC 2014
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

On 05/29/14 21:00, Evan Rowley wrote:
> On May 29, 2014 8:52 PM, "Digimer" <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
 >> On 29/05/14 11:26 AM, m.roth at 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.
 >>>
 >>>      Suggestions? Recommendations? People to run the other way from?
 >>> (Sun/Oracle is down there *under* "none of the above").
>
>> We switched from HP to Fujitsu a couple of years ago, and couldn't be
>> happier. Look into their RX line, I think the RX500 and RX900 (iirc) do
>> 4 and 8 socket.
>>
 > I'd also recommend Fujitsu. If you're desperate there is the SGI H2106-G7
 > in 2U size.

I'll check that out. We *do* have an SGI... a UV 2000.

           mark