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> -----Original Message----- > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elena Korolkova > > I saw the December discussion about Dell C6145. What do people think > about Dell C6100? > We've got some, they're fine, but nothing special. They are (like the C6145s) part of this slightly rough and ready 'cloudserver' range that don't have quite the polish of a normal Dell Poweredge. > If we want to go for less cores /box what can be recommended? > Well, the C6100s or the equivalent (last I heard the current model was the C6220, which is basically the same thing, but with newer CPUs) are a fine choice - the motherboards are hotswappable, so you can do things to one node without taking down the whole chassis, so your effective size of 'box' is only two sockets, which is as small as you'd feasibly want to go anyway. Equivalently though, the SuperMicro versions are also decent (and we chose Viglens over Dell C6220s last time around simply on the basis of price). As a general approach I'd email both your Dell and Viglen reps with something along the lines of "I have £XX,XXX to spend and want as much HepSpec06 as I can get for it, what have you got?" then take it from there. Ewan