From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <50113624.4080303@lynxline.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:20:52 +0200 From: Oleksandr Iakovliev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@9fans.net References: <86d231da61bf5cb2c69c4c17ac7e57f8@hamnavoe.com> In-Reply-To: <86d231da61bf5cb2c69c4c17ac7e57f8@hamnavoe.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040706070501040602060606" Subject: Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a5b1c2ec-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040706070501040602060606 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2012-07-26 09:33 , Richard Miller wrote: >>> We've got some budget left for hardware, so I'm looking for a server >>> suitable for running Plan 9, preferably as good as I can get for about >>> $3000-5000. > You could build a 140-processor raspberry pi cluster for $4900, leaving > $100 in the budget for power supply (490 watts) and wiring. > > Have to wait a few months for delivery though. > > And reserve same amount in $5K to have 140 ethernet ports switch ;) --------------040706070501040602060606 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 2012-07-26 09:33 , Richard Miller wrote:

We've got some budget left for hardware, so I'm looking for a server
suitable for running Plan 9, preferably as good as I can get for about
$3000-5000.

You could build a 140-processor raspberry pi cluster for $4900, leaving
$100 in the budget for power supply (490 watts) and wiring.

Have to wait a few months for delivery though.

And reserve same amount in $5K to have 140 ethernet ports switch ;)
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