the power boost upgrade worked like a *charm* --
many thanks to timothy and slashdot for the posting!!
the linksys upgrade to 1.4h3 also worked like a
charm, and fixed all sorts of problems I was
experiencing trying to config the thing.
(client was my one win2k box)
I too have experienced crappy reception with their
PCMCIA cards... not sure why.
RLX is solid gear
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RLX Gets Denser
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· Score: 5, Informative
I work at an ISV building an MPP application, and
we started eval'ing the RLX 324 back in the
summer, and have had 100% success with them:
in a nutshell, each blade is about half the
performance and half the price of our 1U servers.
Overall, the blades are nicerly "balanced" in
terms of performance.
The claims about density, manageability etc. are
all true (divided by 2, ie. comfortable margin).
Beyond sheer density, with bladed servers, you
can deliver scalable apps in a single box, which
removes the big objection that they're "hard to
manage".
We wrote our own cluster admin tools (perl) and run
on redhat 7.1, which they'll pre-install, so it's
been cake-- but this also means that we didn't
try out their management tools.
Having been burned by other vendors on 1U boxes
esp. heat/vibration causing reliability problems,
I've been doubly pleased that the RLX gear hasn't
had any problems-- exactly the sort of stuff
you'd expect from former Compaq execs... but
without all the proprietary crap-- as a test,
we reinstalled redhat from the retail CDs, and
it just worked.
Slashdot Mirror
just enter the feed url into the search box and it get added...
Long Live Multics!
(in case you have no idea:
http://www.multicians.org/multics.html)
(and yes, this is flamebait-- no need to respond)
the power boost upgrade worked like a *charm* --
many thanks to timothy and slashdot for the posting!!
the linksys upgrade to 1.4h3 also worked like a
charm, and fixed all sorts of problems I was
experiencing trying to config the thing.
(client was my one win2k box)
I too have experienced crappy reception with their
PCMCIA cards... not sure why.
I work at an ISV building an MPP application, and
we started eval'ing the RLX 324 back in the
summer, and have had 100% success with them:
in a nutshell, each blade is about half the
performance and half the price of our 1U servers.
Overall, the blades are nicerly "balanced" in
terms of performance.
The claims about density, manageability etc. are
all true (divided by 2, ie. comfortable margin).
Beyond sheer density, with bladed servers, you
can deliver scalable apps in a single box, which
removes the big objection that they're "hard to
manage".
We wrote our own cluster admin tools (perl) and run
on redhat 7.1, which they'll pre-install, so it's
been cake-- but this also means that we didn't
try out their management tools.
Having been burned by other vendors on 1U boxes
esp. heat/vibration causing reliability problems,
I've been doubly pleased that the RLX gear hasn't
had any problems-- exactly the sort of stuff
you'd expect from former Compaq execs... but
without all the proprietary crap-- as a test,
we reinstalled redhat from the retail CDs, and
it just worked.