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

[Nick Golder]

On 2007-05-09 15:07 -0400, 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 ;-)

Seems a little pricey.  What kind of node interconnect does it have?

>  
>  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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-Nick Golder