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

[balaji <balaji.srinivasa+plan9@gmail.com>]

unlike newegg, acmemicro does not stock anything so delivery time is long.

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
>