From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:24 AM To: Gerry Creager Cc: Beowulf Subject: Re: [Beowulf] MS Cray
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... -- Noise? Packaging? Nobody ever got fired for buying Cray? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
