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

[Scott Castaline]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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Hmmmm   I've got a birthday coming up!!!! I wonder???? Nah I'm dead.....