[ale] OT: Good customer-support experience with Tyan

[Joe Knapka]

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>BTW: Tyan makes a kick-butt 8-processor dual core Opteron mobo that
>would be a guaranteed divorce if I tried to sneak it in. :( I was told I
>can't even price it. :{  So I put up the best color print of it I could
>find and wrote my birthday on it. I know it won't happen since each CPU
>is $1800 and I want all 8 sockets stuffed (and the ram stuffed...)
>http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qw.html
>  
>
That's one sweet board.  Although as well as the base price
of board, CPUs, and RAM, you also need to consider that running it
24/7 would probably triple your electricity bill...

It just occurred to me to wonder what OS they expect people to run
on this hardware. Certainly not Windows; last I heard it still only supports
two CPUs.  Could it be that they're actually targetting this at the
hi-performance Linux cluster market?

-- JK