US Army Linux Supercomputer

[Paul Taylor]

No, they are dual CPU Xeon platforms. Yes, the software is expensive. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Densmore
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:07 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: US Army Linux Supercomputer

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 at 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.