[Hcoop-discuss] Sun Fire servers

[Justin Hart]

I've only ever worked with SPARC SunFires, but, they were very nice
servers.  You can get just about any feature set you want on the SPARC
ones.

We're about to buy a couple dozen Dell 1850's for my lab's new
cluster.  The Theory Center here seems to like them quite a bit.

All of that aside... have we nailed down a feature set yet?  It seems
prudent to just figure out what features we want, and then find the
lowest cost solution providing all of those features... perhaps
sparing a bit of extra change for modularity and expandability.

Justin Hart

On 1/29/06, Justin S. Leitgeb <leitgebj at hcoop.net> wrote:
> Sun Fire servers might not be a bad idea, following Nathan's
> suggestion.  I just looked at them for the first time, and the energy
> efficiency, on-board RAID 0,1, 4 gigabit ethernet ports and SAS would be
> very nice.  I know that I didn't fully appreciate how much power servers
> could use until I started working in a data center with 300+ servers --
> the amount of electricity that data centers consume is really massive.
>
> In my last email I mentioned the Dell 1850 only because I've seen 200+
> of them run well in production.  Certainly open to other ideas, and I
> was already thinking that AMD might be a better way for us to go.  Below
> is a link for the Sun Fire X4100 that may be helpful for anyone interested.
>
> http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/features.jsp
>
> Justin
>
> ntk at hcoop.net wrote:
>
> >
> >Just throwing this out there, but what do you tech folks think about using
> >alternate architectures, say Sun Fire servers?  At least for the main
> >static web/mail server, perhaps for the file server, and then some solid
> >Intel server for the login node?
> >
> >-ntk
> >
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