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Grex Agorage Item 10: The next NextGrex
Entered by lar on Fri Oct 13 18:24:14 UTC 2006:

 I want make some suggestions for the next grex upgrade.
I suggest a 16 processor(up to 64 gigs of ram) tyan 
typoon "supercomputer on a desktop"
The are priced at 5 grand now. They should go for around 1500-2000 in a 
year or so.(you will have to factor the ram) I suggest RedHat linux as 
the OS. This would perhaps hinder the pure Unix skills of the  old 
guard but grex need some fresh blood.
I have some policy suggestions that I will suggest in coop (when I feel 
I want to become a patron) 
  Perhaps linux isn't the best way to go?
 If not then freebsd for sure.

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#1 of 1 by cross on Fri Oct 13 19:32:39 2006:

The thing about the Tyan thing is that it's not a single, 16 processor
machine.  It's four little machines with two processors each, each processor
with dual cores, so that they sort of logically appear like four processor
boxes to the software.  They're just all in one enclosure.

Yeah, FreeBSD is the way to go.

One of those tyan things with a SCSI SAN would be a nice solution for a
hardcore server farm; it's true.

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