Ralph Mason wrote:
We have been building a development cluster using consumer core i7 processors with 12gb of ram each and a ide cf boot disk on a motherboard with embedded everything. This is very cost effective as it uses consumer processors and the cheapest ram (ram prices skyrocket once you go higher than 2gb modules). Does anyone know of any commercial offering that can pack these nodes into a high density rack or offer a similar price performance curve for the given ram and processing power?
I've recently used Finetec (www.finetec.com) to put together a cluster based on the dual-motherboard Supermicro cases. Since each motherboard can hold 2 processors, and each AMD Istanbul processor has 6-cores, I can get 24 cores per rack unit. That's pretty dense. I believe that SuperMicro also makes similar motherboards for Intel processors. Check it out! Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ 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
