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

[bgiles at coyotesong.com]

I would just look at a blade server.  It should have all of the stuff
beyond the motherboard (e.g., redundant power supplies, high-speed
networking between blades, etc.), and be trivial to add additional compute
resources later.

To ask an obvious question, do you have your software already?  If so,
find the hardware it runs on.  If not, figure out what's easiest to use --
I remember looking at a "parallel processing" version of RH (iirc) many
years ago.  It was basically a stock distribution plus a few additional
semi-standard libraries and a control app or two.  Nothing you couldn't do
yourself with a modest amount of effort, but a prepackaged suite might be
easier to sell to the suits.

> 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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