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

[steve at badcheese.com]

Found the product page.  It's all in one box - looks like blades to me:

http://www.tyanpsc.com/
http://www.tyanpsc.com/Products/ProductDetail/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=4&data=1

Looks like dual-Gigabit with an option for Infiniband interconnect.

Personally, I'd go the "build your own" route, but that's just me.  $20k 
is a lot of $$$ for "20 cores" (5 dual-processor, dual-core machines) that 
are in a proprietary form-factor so I couldn't do much maintenance myself. 
Also, note that this will be a paperweight in 4-5 years due to processor 
technology changing as quickly as it does.

- Steve

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Nick Golder wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:29:48 -0600
> From: Nick Golder <nrg at nirgo.net>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Tyan - Typhoon DX-630 Personal Supercomputer ? Good Thing?
> 
> 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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