[Beowulf] A couple of interesting comments

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Tim Cutts" <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

> Wow.  How many nodes were you buying?

95 nodes, each with two Barcelonas, so 760 cores all up.

32GB RAM (4GB/core) and 4x300GB SATA drives (RAID-0) per node.

> And are we allowed to know who the vendor was?

It's all public, so no reason why not. It was a local
Melbourne mob called Xenon Systems, they sell SuperMicro
based systems.  Kudos to both of them for their support.

cheers!
Chris
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