Hi Chuck,
I vote for holding back the $25K. We can always spend it together with the next installment of funds. Cheers.
Charlie
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> Subject: Config for initial purchase
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> Ok, here is what I'm planning to ask Sun to quote for the
> initial Atlas farm:
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> 3 18TB fileservers: V240 + 3 tray 6140 (1 controller + 2 expansion)
> 64 Compute nodes: X2200M2, 2x2214, 8GB (8x1GB DIMMS), 2x250GB drive
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> The storage should come to around $152K and the compute nodes
> to around $223K. That comes about $25K short of $400K, which
> we can either hold back to fix miscalculations (e.g., too
> much storage per server, have to buy more fileservers to
> spread the load), or we can buy 5 or 6 more batch nodes.
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> Any last-minute course corrections before I go ahead with this?
>
> Chuck Boeheim
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