Fire-Sale prices for Danforth Genomics Cluster

[Tolan, Rick]

Community members,
>  
> The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is serious about the liquidation
> of its genomics cluster.
> 
> I have just been authorized to allow the sale of our cluster at a
> ridiculous price of $500 per node (less than half of what we were looking
> for initially. 
> 
> The functional rack grouping remains two racks with the racks, network
> switch, 40 nodes (80 processors) and power strips. $20,000 
> 
> If purchased in entirety, the price is $400 per node. This would then
> include the aggregation switches, the disk space and file server as well
> as control nodes and tape backup library.
> 
> This thing simply must go and I hope that the opportunity to buy at less
> than half to a third of our original asking price is incentive to move on
> this quickly.
> 
> Details can be found at http://www.danforthcenter.org/clusterforsale
> 
> Please contact me immediately to discuss.
> 
> --Rick
> Rick Tolan
>  
> Chief Technical Architect
> Information Technology Services
> Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
> 975 North Warson Road
> St. Louis, MO  63132
> USA
>  
> e-mail:       rptolan at danforthcenter.org
> Phone:        +1 (314) 587-1234
> Fax:          +1 (314) 587-1334
> Help Desk:    +1 (314) 587-1900
>  
> 
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