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<p>Hallo Greg,</p>
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<p>Donnerstag, 2. April 2009, meintest Du:</p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>GL> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:32:22AM +0200, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts7>>> Anyway, I was thinking about companies like Penguin or Scalable, designing </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>>> their own hardware products, like Relions or JackRabbits, and not just </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>>> reselling Supermicro boxes. Unless I'm mistaken on the fact that those systems </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>>> are somewhat different from off-the-shelf boxes. </span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>GL> You would be mistaken. I can't name the Relion by eye, but there are a</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>GL> ton of people selling the 48-disk building block that is Sun's</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>GL> Thumper, which seems to be the chassis is of the JackRabbit. Sun</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>GL> bought the hardware from someone else, and the deal wasn't</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>GL> exclusive. Now there are probably multiple manufacturers.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts7>>> So, to get back to the original discussion, SGI disappearing from the </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>>> landscape means one less option to choose from.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>GL> You think SGI designed the hardware for their non-shared-memory</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>GL> clusters? I don't thnk so.</span></p>
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<p>SGI was reselling the SuperMicro Twin as a ClusterSolution... and so do many other "vendors" (Bull for example)... but why should one convince the customer that it is a "Bull NovaScale R422" or a "SGI Altix XE340" when it is in fact the same SuperMicro Hardware everybody else is selling? It is just to make marketing... i doubt that their hardware is any better than the parts you can get from Supermicro directly...</p>
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<p>Jan</p>
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