Hi list, I'm thinking about buying some (20) Silicon Mechanics Rackform iServ R308.v2 compute boxes for my EDA apps compute grid. They'd be running RHEL5. I'd probably get them with an X5660 and 48gb of ram. Not too worried about dual power supplies, since they're compute box not servers. Link - http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i27241/4-drive-xeon-5600-1U.php
I've generally had good luck with Silicon Mechanics; though I have never bought this particular variant before. Where I'm buying 20 of them I'm just seeing if anyone has any experiences I should be aware of: - Are there other vendors I should consider that I don't know about? - Do you have horror stories about anything (this vendor/X5660 processors/ghosts)? - Do you have non-horror stories about anything (same, etc.)? - Is the management usable? Happy Friday, and as always - thanks for any insight you may be able to provide. Feel free to respond off list too, I'm willing to summarize later. - Patrick _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
