[Bioclusters] Need some advice on a cluster for EST/cDNA assembly, clustering

Elia Stupka elia at tigem.it
Mon Feb 28 15:44:52 EST 2005


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
>
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>> 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.
>>>
>>
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