[Beowulf] "dual" Quad solution from Tyan

[Ricardo Reis]

  Hi all

  I'm responsible for the aquisition of my labs new cluster. I already had 
a specification made and all when I crossed with this at an presentation 
here, in Portugal. The target machine I was looking for was 8 node with 
dual processor Opteron (16 CPU). The machine that was at the presentation 
is

http://www.cybernex.co.uk/tyan_vx50_quad_opteron_servers.htm

which means 8 CPU, dual core. And all are connect with hypertransport 
which meand I got ready of latency I figure. So...

  1. Does anyone has any experience with this machine
  2. Does anyone has any experience with this motherboard
  3. Does anyone has interesting remarks to do about it?

The professor head of the lab wants me to know "if that is so good why 
isn't everyone buying one?"

  if you could please help answer I would be most obliged.

  many thanks,

  Ricardo Reis

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