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

[George Sexton]

Someplace like serversdirect.com will sell something about equivalent to 
the compute nodes for $1,200-$1,500.

So, 5 1U rackmounts would be about $7,500. That would leave $12,500 to 
purchase a rack and the operating systems.

Seems REALLY pricey to me.

gordongoldin at aim.com wrote:
> 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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