There are a lot of rack mount servers showing up on ebay and elsewhere after they come out of service at data centers after a few years. These might not cut it for the cutting edge folks, but would be fine for us to replace our existing (ancient) cluster.
Any suggestions for models to look at for a good price/performance point for say 2-4 cores in the box, 1 or 2 SATA disks, and at least one 1000baseT interface, and a good reliability history? (The disks would probably be bought separately as a lot of these are sold diskless, and new disks aren't that expensive.) For instance, there have recently been a lot of Arima/Rioworks HDAMA based dual dual core Opteron systems advertised. Possibly because they are old enough that nobody wants to buy them ;-). Those would be fast enough for us, but the SATA controller seems to be just for RAID usage. Might work though if these support "raid 0" on a single disk. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ 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
