[Beowulf] Re: GPU boards and cluster servers.

Mon Sep 8 17:11:05 PDT 2008

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:58:36PM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> I think these trends have more to do with the cheap cost of Dell
> Hardware and Dell's sales force  and marketing to upper management than
> they do with any technical advantages Dell has over the competition.

I was involved in the top 2 Dell systems in the UK. Both were
competetive bids, with a cluster integrator other than Dell, and Dell
hardware. So no, marketing wasn't a big driver, but low cost was.

-- greg