We have "GridPP pricing" for R720xd and MD1200 with 3TB disks coming tomorrow, also for C6145 and a variety of Intel processors. Sweet spot understood to be the E5-2650 v2.
Jeremy
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On 4 Dec 2013, at 11:20, Wahid Bhimji wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> (sorry for your loss)
>
> Since then I talked to my local Dell guy.. Stewart Dickson. He was very reassuring that Dell UK were joined up in their talking - that they were still planning to provide LHC favourable pricing to the UK and it would be the same to all sites - he was talking to Eric etc.
>
> He is supposed to come back to me with a quote - based on R720xd (replacement for R510) with optional MD1200s. (With 3TB disks) .
> He didn't do this on Monday but did let me know that this was because they needed special sign-off for the super amazing prices.
> I can write the detailed spec then based on that. So I think for the Dell side its covered - for SM I don't know the range - or if they need us specifying a config. But those who went out to tender already will be hearing back fairly soon so I think they're on the page.
>
> In conclusion, I think its OK - but we should keep talking to each other and them (as much as we can given the processes that will differ in places)
>
> Thanks
>
> Wahid
>
>
> On 4 Dec 2013, at 10:51, David Colling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Dear TB people,
>>
>> Some weeks ago we proposed a set of specs that would at least meet all
>> our purchasing requirements. So that if Dell could get "special pricing"
>> for that limited set of configurations then they would at least meet
>> what people are asking for in their tender/quotes. If this was then the
>> best buy or not would clearly be up to the different institutions,
>> however it would at least mean that we were getting the best possible
>> quote from dell. We should perhaps do the same thing for a supermicro
>> configuration (or two). in the interests of fairness. There was some
>> iteration on the storage but nothing that I saw on the CPU configuration
>> that we suggested. I know that Eric from Dell has put some work into
>> this. Through travelling/teaching and a family crisis (resulting in a
>> funeral on Monday) I have not spoken to Eric in a while (about 3 weeks)
>> which is rather embarrassing.
>>
>> I think that at the stage we are at we either forget this idea or move
>> it quickly to conclusion. I am at CERN in meetings all today so please
>> can I ask that somebody (Wahid being the obvious choice - sorry Wahid)
>> summarise the (I think 2) different storage options that we thought
>> people would be asking for. Please could I also ask Adam (sorry Adam -
>> the price you pay for passing on Eric's message to me ;-) )to suggest
>> concrete specs (model numbers and configurations) for other to comment
>> on. Finally do we have volunteers to do this for supermicro equipment
>> that we could distribute to the different SM suppliers so that we are
>> seen to have a fair process?
>>
>> Either we get this together in the next day or two or we forget it.
>>
>> Best,
>> david
>>
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