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SGI Altix benchmarking whitepaper



Tim Cutts wrote:

8 Way AMD Opteron™ 880 - Dual Core 2.4GHz CPU (940-E)
£ 19,700.00 (about $34k US)

http://www.armari.com/system.asp?SysID=336


That system does only have 4GB of RAM, which is a bit paltry compared to what the 16-way Altix will have, to be fair. But nevertheless, that's a competitive box. Once you configure 2GB of memory per core (which is our usual choice), a decent SCSI disk controller or a FC HBA, it becomes quite a bit more expensive at around £30k, but that's still a pretty good price.

As I remember, you can put up to 256GB of ram in a 8-way dual core box. It will, of course, cost you some ...


Of course what it's missing compared to the Altix or the (much more pricey) HP servers is any form of lights-out management, as far as I can tell, which makes it pretty much a non-starter. Some of the other servers they offer seem to, though (IPMI, anyway, if not remote console)

All of the units we work with/sell have LOM as a requirement. The iWill units have it, the Newisys (basis for Sun v20z), the MSI (basis for the IBM e326), ... I think the HP is a modified iWill, but it is IPMI 2.0. Supermicro is doing this as well. LOM isn't an issue in most cases for these. A working SOL over IPMI is, but then again very few people have that working right anyway.


Tim


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