On 29 May 2014 16:26, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Hey, folks, > > 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. > Whats wrong with the SuperMicro 64 core boxes? I have never seen any problems with them. I assume you mean AMD, in which case the IPMI sucks but other than that..... Dell PowerEdge R815's are pretty ok. Cheers, Andrew