[Beowulf] Re: Beowulf Digest, Vol 19, Issue 33

Bruce Allen ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu
Mon Sep 26 06:37:31 PDT 2005


>> Spending the $$$ to buy some extra nodes won't work in our case.  We don't
>> just use the cluster for computing, we also use it for data storage.
>> Each of the 400+ nodes will have four 250GB disks and a hardware RAID
>> controller (3ware 9500 or Areca 1110).
>>
> AMCC (3Ware) have started shipping their new 9550X series.

Yes, I was excited about this.  Unfortunately it doesn't fit the 
motherboard/case combo.

Cheers,
 	Bruce



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