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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:12:29 -0500, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@ezrs.com>
wrote:
>Robert Myers wrote:
>> On 29 Mar 2005 09:43:01 -0800, "YKhan" <yjkhan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Is that all an Altix costs? $20,000 for a 4P system?
>>>
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>> This is a year-old link, but it still works:
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5138719.html
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>It seems to be atypically priced for that market category. According to
>this statement:
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>> Among the Altix 350's competitors are IBM's p650, an eight-processor system with a starting price of about $27,000 for a dual-processor configuration; Hewlett-Packard's four-processor rx5670, with a starting price of about $22,000; and Sun Microsystems' V880z, an eight-processor machine with a starting price of about $60,000.
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But there is "Hewlett-Packard's four-processor rx5670, with a starting
price of about $22,000."
My point wasn't intended to be taken altogether seriously, as
indicated by the ;-) in my first post to this thread. $/processor is
just one very crude way of normalizing the list prices of computers,
which prices themselves may bear little resemblance to the price at
which hardware is actually sold, especially if you count all the
extras that are thrown in to an actual sale.
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>Also this statement makes no sense:
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>> Moving to Intel's Itanium chips and to Linux offers the company a chance to reduce its research and development expenses.
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>If it's trying to reduce R&D $'s, then what's it doing developing things
>like NUMAflex specifically for Itanium anyways?
>
NUMAflex doesn't have anything to do specifically with Itanium. If
Itanium went away, you might see Opteron connected with NUMAflex. The
Altix 350 allows you to run a single system image on a cluster of four
boxes with 4P each, something you can't do on a do-it-yourself
cluster. SGI uses infiniband to create larger clusters.
RM