At $6k US, and requiring me to get Vista, I'd rather build a system
starting with, e.g., an Asus motherboard. I save one-third the price
and I don't have to file the environmental impact statement on the
flawed OS. I also get NICs I can easily set to accommodate Jumbo Frames.
gerry
andrew holway wrote:
The new Dell R5400 Rackmount workstation is ideal for this. You can
slip two Xeons, 16GB ram and two chunky graphics cards in there.
ta
Andy
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Li, Bo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
It seems your platform is more suitable for a cluster. Great, and when are
the products available? And is there any software support from you?
Regards,
Li, Bo
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From: Maurice Hilarius
To: Li, Bo
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Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: GPU boards and cluster servers.
Li, Bo wrote:
Hello,
Is it too expensive for the platform?
The easy solution is:
And X48 level motherboard with CF support, about $150
Q6600 Processor, about $170
Two 4870X2 $1,100
Two Seagate SATA Harddisk 500G for Raid1, about $140
4*2G DDR2 RAM, about $150
PSU 1000W, about $200
A big box, about $100
That's all, in total, $2,010.
Regards,
Li, Bo
True, to a point.
Most people will not use a desktop board for a cluster.
Too I/O bound.
Finally the memory capacity of these desktop boards is pretty limiting.
Typically 8GB maximum.
Generally a XEON or Opteron chipset and CPUs will be the choice.
Also, for most GPU/FPU performance work, the memory bandwidth bottleneck on
the Intel product is too much of a negative factor.
Lastly, for clusters, most want a rackmount chassis.
We developed a 2U designed for a server board and 2 GPU boards.
The big challenge there is power.
We use dual 600W PSUs. One for motherboard, and one for dual GPU boards.
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