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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: wolfnowl on February 26, 2010, 09:10:58 pm

Title: Cray CX1-iWS
Post by: wolfnowl on February 26, 2010, 09:10:58 pm

This obviously isn't going to be for the average home office, but if you're a reasonable-size facility running Windows 7... Cray supercomputers, Dell and Microsoft are collaborating on the Cray CX1-iWS workstation - not much bigger than your average desktop machine, with 12 or 24GB of RAM, 4TB of onboard storage space, etc.  Prices start at $39K US.

Cray CX1-iWS (http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/hpcc/cray-cx1isw-dell.aspx)

Mike.

Title: Cray CX1-iWS
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 26, 2010, 09:32:58 pm

I always lusted after a Cray, but I figure the closest I'll get to one is from biting off half of a Crayola. 

Title: Cray CX1-iWS
Post by: John.Murray on February 27, 2010, 12:46:42 am

We recently configured one of these for a departmental database (x-ray imaging) server:

http://www.intel.com/Products/Workstation/...WS-overview.htm (http://www.intel.com/Products/Workstation/Systems/Workstation-SC5650SCWS/Workstation-SC5650SCWS-overview.htm)

With SAS 15K rpm drives and 24GB Memory it came in well below $10k.  I was very surprised how quiet and cool running it was.