From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:58:31 -0400 To: john@jfloren.net, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a4f8b73e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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