Ken Teh said...
|I'm looking to buy some hardware to set up a little farm for doing data
|analysis and numerical computation.  We've been conservative and used mostly
|Pentium-4 desktop workstations.  But, I'm curious about the SMP Opterons.  I
|hear mainly good things about them in the press.  I'd like to hear what you
|have to say.  Recommendations, gotchas, that sort of thing...  Also, your
|favorite vendors.

We've got two Penguin dual Opterons.
We've had one of them for close to a
year.  They have been rock solid.
They're fast.  We love them, and
plan to buy more.

Caveat: they're running SuSe 8.x
EL because that's what was available
when we bought the first one, and we
wanted to keep them the same.  So we
don't have any experience with RHEL
or SL on them.

http://www.penguincomputing.com/

We initially purchased from them because
of price and sales support (we needed
something quickly), but the one time we
had a question (not even a problem)
after purchase, they responded very
quickly.

I don't know how they divvy up sales
but we have dealt with Tom Tran
([log in to unmask]).

-Miles