[CentOS] OEM suggestions

Thu May 29 17:14:45 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

zep wrote:
>
> On 05/29/2014 12:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:46 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> I agree. But I do need a third quote, though I suppose I could get a
>>> reseller along with Dell and the HP. I was sort of looking for anther
>>> vendor that's got 64 cores in 1U (the Dell's 2U).
>> If you are looking for density, shouldn't you be using blade systems?
>> I think both HP and Dell have blades that can go to 64 cores.
>>
> I suspect it's total cores per machine + density; I dunno if
> HP/Dell/anyone else can do that sort of density on cores
> with blades. I have some IBM 3850s that seem to get close (and I'd
> gladly give them to all sorts of people that I greatly dislike)
>
> if blades are an option, Cisco UCS blades seems to work
> quite well for us, but I don't think they get much over the
> dual proc hexacore range.

No, I'm not looking at blades. They're $$$, while the Dell & HP are in the
$13k range.

       mark