Tim Cutts wrote: >> 8 Way AMD Opteron™ 880 - Dual Core 2.4GHz CPU (940-E) >> £ 19,700.00 (about $34k US) >> >> http://www.armari.com/system.asp?SysID=336 > > > That system does only have 4GB of RAM, which is a bit paltry compared > to what the 16-way Altix will have, to be fair. But nevertheless, > that's a competitive box. Once you configure 2GB of memory per core > (which is our usual choice), a decent SCSI disk controller or a FC HBA, > it becomes quite a bit more expensive at around £30k, but that's still > a pretty good price. As I remember, you can put up to 256GB of ram in a 8-way dual core box. It will, of course, cost you some ... > Of course what it's missing compared to the Altix or the (much more > pricey) HP servers is any form of lights-out management, as far as I > can tell, which makes it pretty much a non-starter. Some of the other > servers they offer seem to, though (IPMI, anyway, if not remote console) All of the units we work with/sell have LOM as a requirement. The iWill units have it, the Newisys (basis for Sun v20z), the MSI (basis for the IBM e326), ... I think the HP is a modified iWill, but it is IPMI 2.0. Supermicro is doing this as well. LOM isn't an issue in most cases for these. A working SOL over IPMI is, but then again very few people have that working right anyway. > > Tim > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615