Questions and Sanity Check

[Brian Marsden]

On 26 Feb 2001, Ray Jones wrote:

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> Does anyone have any comments on the Racksaver RS-1200 compute node,
> in the 2-Athlon in 1U configuration (or even the 2-pentium in 1U
> config)?  We like the node we have for testing, but wonder what life
> with 64 of them will be like.

I have experience of Racksaver boxes - 6P2U Intel and 4P1U Intel. Rock
solid once the initial gremlins are dealt with (dodgy processors/hard
drives/RAM). I believe that that the University of Delaware are happy with
their Athlon cluster from this company.

Brian

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