[luau] RHEL 3.0 on AMD64 (Was: migration)

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

How much does an equivalent AMD64 system cost? Any vendors you would 
recommend?  What are their specs?

Warren Togami wrote:

> Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr wrote:
>
>> Lucas wrote:
>>
>> | HP ProLiant DL360 G3                                   $6,706.00
>> | (list) (2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 72.8 GB 10000 RPM
>> | SCSI hot-pluggable drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS)
>>
>> This machine rocks :D  I got one (DL380 G3) with the write-cache battery
>> and 4x (39G 15k) scsi raid (one spare) running RH9.  It ran for the DOE
>> for 129 days straight till I decided to reboot for kernel updates to
>> take effect.  No hickups.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
> I sent Lucas a more extended response to this, but you folks should 
> REALLY check out the AMD64 Opteron based servers.  While being 
> competitive with Xeon prices, you get double the registers and real 
> 64bit hardware.
>
> Since Lucas is purchasing for the University, they also qualify for 
> the extremely low cost RHEL 3.0 for AMD64 academic licensing.
>
> Warren
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