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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:22 -0700, Joe Knapka wrote:
> 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?
> 
Yep. That's the market. With heat sinks in place on the mobo and
daughterboard, that should put the tray at 4U. By using a half-rack case
(<15" depth) and external power (and some SUBSTANTIAL cooling) a 42U x
30" rack could hold 160 CPU's and 2560 GB RAM and still have room for a
48 port Gb switch (or a fiber channel switch since each tray is 4U and
has room for a dual FC card!).

Of course that rack would cost upwards of $800k !!

> -- JK
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