On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:16:12PM +0100, Roine Gustafsson wrote:
> However, I'll wager the cluster of 32bit beige boxes would be more bang
> for the buck than a honkin' 64 bit Bigiron UltraPower. Atleast for
> rendering.
An off the shelf Opteron or G5 will be a lot cheaper than the same
amount of Itanium2/Power5 CPU speed, but available configurations cap
out at about 4 CPUs and 64G of RAM per machine right now.
Companies like SGI and HP can build Itanium2-based single machines
with pretty much as many CPUs and as much shared RAM as you care to
pay for. SGI is now even offering to build clusters of such machines
with multiple 10Gbit/sec interfaces between them. If your job
requires huge amounts of shared data, you don't have a lot of
alternatives.
-Dave Dodge
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