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Subject: [Beowulf] A bit OT - scientific workstations - recommendations
From: Roland Krause <rokrau () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2006-03-03 19:11:38
Message-ID: 20060303191138.5921.qmail () web82112 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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I realize that this is slightly off-topic but since we all deal with
hardware quite a little bit I thought I'd ask you for recommendations
where to buy scientific workstations.
The specs for what I am looking for are very similar to my current
cluster nodes namely
- Dual Opteron 248 - 252
- 4Gig Memory
- Gig-E
but since these are supposed to be desktops where people do pre- and
post-processing and visualization I'd like to add:
- 250-300 Gig disk (SATA or SATAII)
- NVidia 6600 or comparable (Quadro 540 maybe)
- DVD writer
- Quiet fans
- SuSE-10 preinstalled
- 24/7/365 next day on site support
I have checked IBM and SUN which are "waaaayyy to expensive" and I am
leaning towards HP's xw9300 which seems nice but the sales people at HP
are the most unhelpful bunch I've ever dealt with. So obviously I have
my doubts about the whole HP-Linux experience.
Also, I like the OS preinstalled, patched, the BIOS fully upgraded to
the latest and the graphics drivers installed and everything ready to
go so that all I have to do is to plug the cables in. Down the road I'd
like to see next-day on-site support.
Where do you guys go for this stuff? I am looking to buy 10
workstations to start with and then many more down the road.
Am I dreaming?
Roland
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