Hallo Rahul, where are you "based"? If you are in Europe we (ClusterVision) can definitely help you out with benchmarks and quotes...
Go to www.clustervision.com for further information... Jan Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009, meintest Du: RN> I'm currently shopping around for a cluster-expansion and was shopping RN> for options. Anybody out here who's bought new hardware in the recent RN> past? Any suggestions? Any horror stories? RN> We've been using Dell SC1435's with Quad-Core AMD 2354 Opterons @ RN> 2.2GHz. 16 Gig RAM. RN> Any new-cutting edge stuff I ought to be asking my vendors to put into RN> the quotes? I already have gigabit bonded backbones and don't think we RN> have the financial muscle to upgrade to Myrinet or Infiniband yet. In RN> the interest of homogeniety and not wanting to have dual trees of RN> executibles I might be tempted to stick with AMDs unless there is RN> compelling temptation otherwise. RN> I am already looking at the CPU benchmarks on the Intel/AMD websites RN> but they can sometimes be misleading / misrepresenting other than the RN> obvious glaring conflict of interest. I rather trust first-hand RN> anecdotal evidence from you guys actually administering them for RN> scientific applications. Unless there is a good third party, relevant RN> database? RN> For some reason the top500 sublists seem skewed to prefer the Intel RN> Xeons. Why so few Opterons or any other AMD hardware? Just curious if RN> this is driven by technological inferiority of only a marketing RN> effect. My vendor seems to be trying to steer me towards an Intel RN> Nehalem or Clovertown for whatever reasons good or bad. RN> Ultimately of course, it might be best if I just got to benchmark my RN> very own application on these CPUs before I bought them. But that's RN> just wishing I guess! Bye Jan
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