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Let's clarify the need and $$$.
Indeed, we are planning on running quite large jobs on these servers, and therefore 64 bit processors are required.
At the moment, the most likely scenario is:
- 1 x Sun V880, 8 x 900 MHz, 32 Gb RAM, 6 x 73G disks - 1 x Sun V480, 4 x 900 MHz, 24 Gb RAM, 2 x 73 G disks - 15 x Sun Blade 150, 1 x 550 MHz, 640 Mb RAM
We are considering the HP rx5670 as a possible replacement for the V480, pricewise the two machines are comparable, however, it seems that Sun machine is considerable slower but runs all the applications that we need (ILOG CPLEX, MATLAB,...).
Couldn't agree more, we have a farm of O2s and they crash like hell, by Unix standard that is; almost one crash per month. We had some code that would systematically crash machines with panic error. I just hope that what SGI has to contribute to Linux is not instability!!!!
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Let's clarify the need and $$$.
...).
Indeed, we are planning on running quite large
jobs on these servers, and therefore 64 bit
processors are required.
At the moment, the most likely scenario is:
- 1 x Sun V880, 8 x 900 MHz, 32 Gb RAM, 6 x 73G disks
- 1 x Sun V480, 4 x 900 MHz, 24 Gb RAM, 2 x 73 G disks
- 15 x Sun Blade 150, 1 x 550 MHz, 640 Mb RAM
We are considering the HP rx5670 as a possible
replacement for the V480, pricewise the two
machines are comparable, however, it seems that
Sun machine is considerable slower but runs
all the applications that we need (ILOG CPLEX,
MATLAB,
Thanks for all the comments
Couldn't agree more, we have a farm of O2s and they crash like hell, by Unix standard that is; almost one crash per month. We had some code that would systematically crash machines with panic error. I just hope that what SGI has to contribute to Linux is not instability!!!!