Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gerry Creager <gerry.crea...@tamu.edu> wrote: >> Yep. When the hardware arrives, and is installed (at $5K or more/rack!), >> the bill is due. Acceptance testing? No way. And if we choose to run >> something silly like Rocks/CentOS, there's a question of support (even >> hardware), too. >> > > I wonder if any vendors follow the exchanges on the Beowulf list! :) > They could grab more tips about customer satisfaction than those > surveys they keep sending me after every interaction. >
Plenty of Vendors do. I've seen messages from SiCortex, Cisco, Myrinet, QLogic, Intel, Penguin Computing, Scalable Informatics... Dell definitely doesn't. I've suggested it to many of the people I dealt with for my cluster. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
