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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Windows *can* and *does* support more than two CPUs.  However, the more 
common versions of Windows are crippled so as to not be able to use more 
than two.  You have to pay extra for a non-crippled or at least 
less-crippled "Data Center Edition" or some such. 

The thing being, if you're going to put this kind of money into 
hardware, you'd have to be doing something really deadly-serious, which 
you would think would rule out Windows out of hand. 



Scott Castaline wrote:

>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>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!).
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>>Of course that rack would cost upwards of $800k !!
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>>>-- JK
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>Hmmmm   I've got a birthday coming up!!!! I wonder???? Nah I'm dead.....
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