--- Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If you have $$$$$ to burn, IBM is selling > IntelliStation A Pro > | workstation with RHEL3 WS pre-installed for > $6,419. Monitor, of > | course, is not included. wayne > > riiight... what a funk'd model! Why get that when > you can have a 10 > node cluster for the same price?! crayyyy zeee. this > thing seriously > costs too much.
Honestly, it depends on your needs. The Intellistation A Pro appears to be a workstation for graphics design, on par with an SGI Fuel or Sun Blade 2500. Due to the nature of graphics work, this workstation would be better suited for that task versus a 10-node cluster. The cluster would be good to attach to if you are rendering 3-D animation or graphics, but even then your software has to be able to take advantage of a cluster. The latest version of Maya is supposed to not only be Linux compatible, but also take advantage of clustered environments. Besides, do you thikn you could take the heat and noise that comes from having a 10-node cluster as a desktop? ;) Just my 2% of a dollar... Casey Roberts __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
