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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Explain to me how the RAM on this thing operates - some sort of 
shared-and-per-CPU model?

Jeff

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:22 -0700, Joe Knapka wrote:
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>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>>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
>>> 
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>>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...
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>>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?
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>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 !!
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>>-- JK
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