-----Original Message----- From: Skylar Thompson [mailto:sky...@cs.earlham.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:51 PM To: Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Repeated Dell SC1435 crash / hang. How to get the vendor to resolve the issue when 20% of the servers fail in first year?
Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: > To be perfectly fair to Dell, I have a rack of SC1435 and they are > working perfectly under CentOS 5.2. Too bad I can't buy more. I'm > having to strip down Dell 1950's to add a new rack of nodes, which > costs significantly more. My gripe is that Dell has put the 1435 on > end-of-sale, with the 1950 soon to follow, and no suitable replacement > (from what I've seen & heard) for a diskless, dual CPU, 1 U footprint > node available for sale for HPC use. > Have you tried the R200? We've only been using it for low-end web server stuff so far (we still have our 1435 and 1950 based clusters) but it seems like it's an upgrade of a 1435. The R200 is a single CPU system. I just looked at the Dell site, and I think the R610 might work. Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ 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
