There are some pretty good deals in the low end of the mother board and CPU ranges right now. Not what you folks would buy, but something I'd consider to replace the old Athlon MP's in our 2U cases, one of which just blew up (or the Tyan motherboard, it hardly matters as I don't have spares for either part). It looks like one can buy a dual core Athlon64, 1 Gb of memory, 1G Lan, and low end VGA on a consumer motherboard for around $150. Maybe less. With the recycled case, fans, PS, and disks that would be an inexpensive way to more than resuscitate the dead node(s).
The one thing that I don't see cheap anywhere is ECC RAM and motherboards that support it. Any of you running clusters without ECC? Has the lack of error correction been a problem? Thanks, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
