Supercomputing without Itanium
 

Anybody got any suggestions for multiway systems ie Over 8x Dual Core or Quadcore opteron servers?

Best I can find is the Sun XW4600 (think thats the code)..

Things like the Unisys ES7000 look like they participate as cluster nodes and I just want one fook of box.

Needs to run Windows 2003 Enterprise or Datacentre, as SQL wont work on Windows 2003 CCS

Also recompiling for the IA64 architecture isnt an option at the moment.

David

8 way X4600 looks about it. Replacing the dual cores with quads may be expensive though

Did you look at the IBM x3850 ? They do a 4 way 4 core xeon that runs winslug


Steve

LOL..

dont like IBM X series since they ditched the cascade style kvm cables when we were using the x330's at my old place..

HP do the DL580 for a 4x quad core xeon.

David

Got DL580's 4 x Quad core and 128GB RAM at my place. W2k3 Datacentre and SQL 2k5. Runs pretty well....

what do you class as pretty well? :D