Hi, like Martin and Santanu we've got some R410, and where we needed more
than the one miserly PCIe slot we've got R710. Existing ones have E5520
procs, new probably will have E5620.
Lawrie
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Martin Bly wrote:
> CPU chips or chassis models?
>
> Our recent services nodes were enhanced R410s (extra network ports,
> disks). The CPUs are 55xx because 56xx were not available at the time
> we ordered. Now we'd probably go for 56xx depending on what we wanted
> them for but as was said at HEPSysMan, the best bang/buck seems to be
> for the latest AMD chips.
>
> I have my eye on some R610s for (oracle) database servers but that's
> another story.
>
> Martin.
> --
> Martin Bly
> RAL Tier1 Fabric Manager
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Love
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:46 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Dell ATLAS
>>
>> Regarding Dell workernode boxes, which Model numbers have people been
>> looking at? I guess Westmere is the current choice.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>
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