We just got 10 pallets on these in at my work today...

[Injury]

*golf clap*

 

[Rogodin2]

THat's pretty cool! We just received 30 cabinets each with 40 of these 2u dell 2950s:

Link won't work:edit

Each machine is roughly $6400 with the options and each cabinet has 30 machines. So each one of the cabinets has $192000 of servers and with 30 cabinets we're looking at $5,760,000.

Rogo

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
HP XW8400 Workstations

That is 162 machines. Each one in the $6k range.

I work for DoD.

You work for Day of Defeat??? I used to love that game!

 

[Parasitic]

That's nice.

I wish DoE was more generous with stuff like this. My old research lab, in spite of having the most lab space (in fact in a different building almost all by its own) and being funded by DoE, some of the equipment was so archaic and down most of the time.

 

[MegaVovaN]

WOW will run on computers 1/10 of that price

 

[indamixx99]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
THat's pretty cool! We just received 30 cabinets each with 40 of these 2u dell 2950s:

Link won't work:edit

Each machine is roughly $6400 with the options and each cabinet has 30 machines. So each one of the cabinets has $192000 of servers and with 30 cabinets we're looking at $5,760,000.

Rogo

Damn, where the hell do you work?

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I work for the State of California and I have a 5 year old Dell with W2K and 256 MB RAM. You can hardly tell we are on a T3.

Which dept? We just got 19" LCD widescreen with dual core Gateways

 

[Midnight Rambler]

thats how our black ops get funded. like bay of pigs... and taking out the wtc...

And I suppose Clay Shaw and David Ferrie were the purchasing "agents" for the order ? hee hee ...

 

[RossMAN]

Don't forget to install a screensaver from Distributed.net on all those PC's

 

[Pocatello]

So how is Crysis running?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
What are the users going to be doing with these beef cake workstations.

solitaire and minesweeper.

 

[SearchMaster]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Don't forget to install a screensaver from Distributed.net on all those PC's

Dave will help you out with that.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Don't forget to install a screensaver from Distributed.net on all those PC's

Dave will help you out with that.

No, it needs to be Osama.net

They need all the help they can get to find him apparently.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Pretty easily actually, they are pretty much maxed except for the memory (only got 4gb, not 8gb). (2) Dual 3.0GHz Xeon Cpus, (2) 1Tbyte SATA300 drives (special order for DoD), 768Mb Nvidia Quadro FX4600 vid card (They didn't get the top of line 5500)

The price goes up very fast when adding the dual 3.0GHz Xeons on there.

You know anyone can buy 3GB/s 1TB SATA drives right?

That's cool that you guys are getting those, seem a tad expensive for what you are getting though, I wonder if the nVidia Quadro drives the price up a lot? I build HP SAS servers for cheaper, minus the graphics capability.

 

[boomerang]

Running, what? DOS?

 

[Josh123]

Why HP desktops and Dell Laptops? Why not go through the same company?

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: Josh123
Why HP desktops and Dell Laptops? Why not go through the same company?

HP laptops FTL

 

[Cruisin1]

Originally posted by: Jugernot

Originally posted by: hungfarover
What OS?

XP Professional...

They are going to be used for training and simulations.

Ohhh, we are also getting a shipment of 60 Dell M90 laptops next week for another software we use. Each one of these systems pretty much also maxed out.

Dell M90

Sometimes, it's great to work for the government.

We just got 4 IBM System p 595 machines in at my work... beat that

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: indamixx99

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
THat's pretty cool! We just received 30 cabinets each with 40 of these 2u dell 2950s:

Link won't work:edit

Each machine is roughly $6400 with the options and each cabinet has 30 machines. So each one of the cabinets has $192000 of servers and with 30 cabinets we're looking at $5,760,000.

Rogo

Damn, where the hell do you work?

Meh, we have a cluster LSF with > 600 64-bit cpus. Running SuSE. A few of the nodes have 32GB of ram. I wish they had more ram. I laugh at 4GB.

 

[imported_LoKe]

What a waste of money.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
What are the users going to be doing with these beef cake workstations.

Outlook and Office 2k7

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
What are the users going to be doing with these beef cake workstations.

Outlook and Office 2k7

Actually these are going to be used for battle simulation work. Only a few will even have office installed.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: dquan97

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I work for the State of California and I have a 5 year old Dell with W2K and 256 MB RAM. You can hardly tell we are on a T3.

Which dept? We just got 19" LCD widescreen with dual core Gateways

Transportation.

 

[Mxylplyx]

I'll bet these pimped out machines will be running software apps that could run on a budget PC, but in typical government fashion, they'll spend 10 times more than necessary.

 

[Kermy]

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
I'll bet these pimped out machines will be running software apps that could run on a budget PC, but in typical government fashion, they'll spend 10 times more than necessary.

Reading comprehension FTL!