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

[steve at badcheese.com]

Personally, I've had bad experience with the Tyan motherboards and older 
Linux distros.  Just by $0.02.  I'm not familiar with the exact machine 
you're referencing below.

- Steve

On Wed, 9 May 2007, gordongoldin at aim.com wrote:

> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:07:42 -0400
> From: gordongoldin at aim.com
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Tyan - Typhoon DX-630 Personal Supercomputer  ?  Good Thing?
> 
> 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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