Has anybody dealt with "Rackable Systems, Inc."? builders of custom
high-density rackmount servers. They offer both AMD and Intel. Being
focused on half-depth, low-power, and low-heat solutions,
their products seem to be a little on the expensive side.
I have had the pleasure of a 30-day use of a sizable cluster for use
in an experiment on attack attribution. I had no real issues. The are
perfect for large national labs and areas like regional ISP's who
want lower TCO related to floor space, utilities and cooling as you
note. They are priced about what I would expect for a custom designed
cluster, but outside of this feature I have been using Apple's server
cluster or white-box things we have built our self. It has a place in
market, but it is not the answer for everyone that needs computing
power. It is really meant for someone that is going to have 250+
units in a small footprint. i.e. think NOCs in the Bay, Manhattan,
etc. They would be on my short list for purchase for those type of
situations.
I've been talking to them on the phone and via email about servers
(for work) and they mentioned some of customers run OpenBSD..
I have a meeting with a sales guy on Wednesday, and want to give him
some good questions to bring back to the technology guys.
Get the name of three customers and talk to them. Never take a
companies word on it. Or mine. The proof as they say is in the
pudding and people who have good pudding love to share.
They seem open to putting together an OpenBSD-supported SKU and
making it orderable from the web site (I'll strongly recommend
including
an official CD set with each order). Anything else I should ask
about?
I am just a user and not a developer of obsd, but Go, Fight, Win!
CU
Chet Uber
President and Principal Scientist
SecurityPosture, Inc.
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