Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations?

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

Watch out for the bunnies!

On 25 July 2012 15:09, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> On Wed Jul 25 00:45:01 EDT 2012, john@jfloren.net 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. Buying non-Thinkpad Plan 9 hardware is kind of a
>>> crapshoot, and this isn't just some $100 Atom system, so if any of you
>>> are running something along these lines, please let me know. I'd most
>>> like to see lots of cores and lots of RAM, I don't even want storage
>>> (we've got other methods for storage).
>>
>> hey, john, i've had incredible luck with intel servers from supermicro
>> for general beat-about servers.
>>
>> just as a quick suggestion, i'd look at this server here.
>>
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6017/SYS-6017R-WRF.cfm
>>
>> with 8-core socket-r cpus, you can have 32 cores and 128gb of memory
>> without stretching the budget too much.  the intel i350 nics work fine,
>> but for something that hot, i'd get a myircom or intel 10gbe adapter.
>>
>> this was just whatever came up in 5 minutes.  you might want to look
>> at this page here for more options
>>
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Xeon_X9_E5.cfm?pg=SS
>>
>> acmemicro.com (fitting, no?) should have the full range of stuff.
>>
>> - erik
>
> Thanks for the tip; I just looked at acmemicro and spec'd out a
> decent-looking 16-core system with 64 GB of RAM for about $4800, so
> I'll probably end up doing something like that.
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> john
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