[TriLUG] Purchasing a Linux cluster

[Joe Meador]

Thanks for everyone's responses requarding clusters.  So far I have had
the best luck with Penguin Computing.  The people there have been very
prompt when returning my phone calls and also sending me quotes.  They
have also been very knowledgeable.  I am still awaiting replies from Dell
and IBM.  Some sort of receptionist took my information when I called last
Wednesday and I have still not heard from them.  I'm disappointed but if
they ever call I will still listen to their offers.

Joe Meador

ps the quote from Penguin Computing was a 16 node cluster with 2 Athlon MP
2000+ /512 RAM in each slave, Gigabit network switch and card for each
node, master node with ~219 Gigabyte disk array storage (not including
redundant disk and disk for OS), and a nice cabinet and tape backup
system for less than $50,000.

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joe Meador wrote:

>
> The group I work for is looking to purchase a Linux cluster within the
> next few months.  I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions as to
> which vendor we should look at, specs, etc...  Right now we have a quote
> from Ion Computer Systems for a 10 node cluster for $56,000.  We're
> looking for something a bit more affordable.  Any suggestions are greatly
> appreciated!  We're also hoping to purchase 6 Linux workstations for heavy
> graphical use (to replace SGI's).  We may just buy Dell workstations and
> install Linux on them.  Thanks for your replies!
>
> Joe Meador
> joe at alien.biochem.wfubmc.edu
>
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