[lug] Tyan - Typhoon DX-630 Personal Supercomputer ? Good Thing?

[gordongoldin at aim.com]

Anybody use big hunky $20,000 machines? Or know anybody who does?
 
 We're looking to buy a number cruncher for training acoustic models for Natural Language Processing and training voice recognition models.
 This is what we are looking at. Of course the saleman says the price is $19,999.99 ;-)
 
 Does anybody have any comment on this company, this kind of configuration, or BETTER ideas?
 It comes with RHLX V4.0.
 
 TyanPSC Personal Super Computer
 Typhoon DX-630 Personal Supercomputer
 
 Tyan- T-630A DX 5-Node Cluster (Intel)
 - 20 cores (2.33Ghz/1.33FSB Xeon dual core)
 - 10GB RAM
 - 250GB SATA2 HDD (1 per node)
 - Platform OCS/RHLX 4.0
 - NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
 - Standard Warranty (1 year)
 Head Node
 1 MOTHERBOARD Tyan S2696 MB
 1 PROCESSOR Dual Intel XeonTM 5148 dual-core, 2.33GHz/1333Hz FSB
 LV processor, MAX. TDP 40 Watts
 1 MEMORY 2GB, FBDIMM 533MHz with ECC
 1 VIDEO Nvidia Quadro FX 560 PCIe x16 add-on card
 1 STORAGE 250GB, SATA-II 7200RPM
 
 Compute Nodes (4)
 1 MOTHERBOARD Tyan S5372 MB
 1 PROCESSOR Dual Intel XeonTM 5148, 2.33GHz/1333Hz FSB LV
 processor, MAX. TDP 40 Watts
 1 MEMORY 2GB, FBDIMM 533MHz with ECC
 1 STORAGE 250GB, SATA-II, 7200RPM
 1 OS Platform OCS + RHLX V4.0 ********RedHat 4.0
 
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