On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 at 8:22am, Gerry Creager wrote
Gus Correa wrote:
Here is the link to the CX1 on the Cray web site:
http://www.cray.com/products/CX1.aspx
You need MS Explorer to customize/price it.
I just knew you had to be wrong, but sure enough, I can't see config options.
It's a show stopper for me. If I need IE to buy the system, it's not likely
to happen until A) there's an IE that runs natively on *nix, and B) it
doesn't have the myriad problems associated with IE in the past.
Hrm -- WORKSFORME using FF3 on Fedora 9. Notably, Cray is happy to sell
the CX1 to you sans OS. W2K8 is a $3752 option (at least in my sample
config with 8 compute blades). As was noted, the Linux they suggest is
"Red Hat Linux", by which one would assume they mean RHEL (why does
everybody make that mistake -- there hasn't been a "Red Hat Linux" since
RH9 (shudder)).
Also, as one would expect, the hardware premium is hefty. A compute blade
with dual Xeon E5462s, 16GB RAM (8x2GB), and an 80GB HDD is $6656.
Without even trying too hard I can get a similarly configured 1U node for
$4400. So that's a 50% markup on nodes, not to mention the almost $9K for
the chassis. Of course, that's before any discounts.
Maybe it's my miserly ways, but I just don't see the value proposition
here...
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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