Low 6 figures! For a 2 node cluster? You could buy
a 100 cpu Linux cluster from HP online for $233K!
Holy crap. I'd be willing to bet you could get a
better price by actually calling them. I guess the
"special" software is what cost so much money. 
I hope each node is at least a quad cpu box.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Taylor 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:31 PM
> To: 'Jim Herrmann'; kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: RE: US Army Linux Supercomputer
> 
> 
> The boxes I recently purchased come with 'special' 
> application software. It
> was low 6 figures for a clustered pair, the OS wasn't broken 
> out from the
> rest of the bundled price. I would guess it was peanuts 
> compared to the
> total price.
> 
> It's the first M$ cluster I had to purchase. I'll probably 
> buy some more
> over the next 18 months.
Maybe I could help you on that. Any customer willing to toss
$100K around for a two node cluster is for me. Maybe I could write
them some "special" application software.