hi ya
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Johann Koenig wrote:
> On Wednesday February 25 at 09:45pm
> Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:48:29PM -0600, Raiz-mpx wrote:
> > > From: Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >The ultimate in SMP is, of course, Sun Computers. Hundreds of CPUs,
> > > >Hundreds of Gigs of RAM, Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
> >
> > ...or the cheaper alternative... racks of Playstation 2s, running
> > Linux. (Found this on dead-tree, but I'm sure Google would find it.)
>
> Very interesting, but how is this different than a stack of <generic
> cheap motherboard>? They can't be selling them at so much of a loss as
or a stack of mini-itx or atx blades*
- 10 blades in one 4U rack
or just four 1U boxes...
and w/ 42U high racks... that'd be 420 cpu per rack
or 840 cpu if you want front and rear loaded blades into the rack
and parts costs is very low ... as low as you can expect
using your own math of whatever parts you want to use
dont know too many people that have apps that are linear
w/ throughput with the number of cpus
( dual/quad cpu motherboards might not always be "better" )
how the apps are coded will make a huge, as much as 10x as
cost effective to use single cpu or quads depending
on the apps
c ya
alvin
* mini-itx blade systems is being built/quoted .. as we speak :-)
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