[ale] Server Vendor Hardware

[Jonathan Glass]

Just out of curiosity, did you consider PenguinComputing.com?

Just for the fun of it, I spec'd out a box with this config (except this 
machine has next day support) for a total of $6282.  Of course, I'm more 
interested in computing nodes, so I left off keyboards, mice, crap like 
that.  Fun thing is, a similar machine from Dell costs (on state 
contract) $5967.  Interesting that Dell's state contract price is only 
$300.00 off the Penguincomputing retail price. 

Thanks

jonathan glass

Alexander Barton wrote:

> Excellent.  Good thinking about that 2U part.  That way it'll mount 
> underneath my desktop and I won't have to worry about stubbing my toes 
> any more.
>
> -A
>
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, guys, I'm looking for some server quality hardware for my company.
>> Something along these specs:
>>
>> Rackmount 2U
>> Dual 3Ghz Xeon
>> 4Gigs of ram
>> 3x75Gig Hotswap SCSI drives
>> 4x10/100 Copper NIC
>> Floppy (must have)
>> Linux compatable
>>
>> On-site Service such as Dell's 4Hour is a big plus.
>>
>> We're currently getting quotes from Dell and IBM for a total of
>> about 80-100 machines but I'm not sure in what quantity how fast yet.
>> That will come down the road once we get pricing, etc.
>>
>> Suggestions based on working with the vendors?
>>   Robert
>>
>>
>> :wq!
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