[Beowulf] Suggestions for used workhorse servers

Prentice Bisbal prentice at ias.edu
Thu Jun 30 13:48:39 PDT 2011


I've always been pleased with the HP ProLiant systems, like the DL385
models. The seemed pretty reliable to me. I'd trust one of those over a
Dell PowerEdge, however I'm sure you'll get as many opinions as there
are subscribers on this list.

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Prentice

On 06/30/2011 04:33 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> One can find some pretty inexpensive older servers on eBay that probably could 
> yield a decent $/flop ratio.  I was wondering if people here had suggestions 
> for classic workhorse servers - basic 1U boxes that did/do pretty well be are 
> a couple years old at this point.
> 
> Thanks!
> 



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