Thankfully we actually got our two 2-way Opterons for free from Sun, so that was a good deal ;) Elia On 28 Feb 2005, at 19:33, Kevin M. Carr wrote: > Elia, > > Regarding the Sun 4 way Opteron, they are actually made by a company > called > Newisys. Specifically it is the Newisys 4300; see: > > http://www.newisys.com/products/4300.html > > You can get the exact same box from other vendors for a lot less than > Sun. > (When we were collecting bids for one, a vendor offered to silkscreen > the > Sun logo on one for us.) We got one with 4 X AMD846 CPUs, 16 GB RAM > (8 X > 2GB) and 4 X 73 GB U320 HDDs for right around $17,000 US. Granted, > this > vendor probably does not support Italy (frankly, I've found their > after sale > support in the U.S. to be a little lacking.) I also know that Sun can > offer > some unbelievable discounts to educational institutions, we have > benefited > from some of those ourselves. > > Whoever you get it from you probably won't be disappointed, we use > ours for > WGS sequence assembly and really love it. All I'm saying is, when it > comes > to buying Opterons from Sun, you really are paying for the logo since > you > can get identical kit from other vendors. > > Cheers, > > Kevin M. Carr > > ************************** > Systems Administrator > Genomics Technology > Support Facility > 202-D Biochemistry Bldg. > Michigan State University > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > Ph: (517) 353-6794 > Fax:(517) 353-8638 > ************************** > >> From: Elia Stupka <elia at tigem.it> >> Reply-To: "Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in >> life >> science informatics" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org> >> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:23:24 +0100 >> To: "Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in life >> science >> informatics" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org> >> Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Need some advice on a cluster for EST/cDNA >> assembly, clustering >> >> I don't at all, it is just >> a)I was making a negative remark on mainstream vendors >> >> b)currently equipping a lab located in Italy, we are limited in >> choice, >> especially when it comes to good warranty/service (though officially >> some of the vendors you mention are available, when it comes to >> practice they don't have as good a support network here) >> >> c)being part of an important non-profit organization we get very sweet >> deals from the mainstream guys such as HP and Sun (like servers for >> free) so we cannot refuse ;) >> >> Elia >> >> >> On 27 Feb 2005, at 20:26, Matt Temple wrote: >> >>> Why do you reject the quad Opteron computers (supporting 32 GB of >>> RAM) >>> from vendors like ASAComputers (and, no >>> doubt, though I haven't checked from PCs for Everyone and others)? >>> The computers, themselves, may not be from mainstream >>> vendors, but they are from motherboard manufacturers that I'd be >>> inclined to call mainstream -- SuperMicro, Tyan, ASUS. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org >> https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters