Another +1 for Silicon Mechanics. The company I worked for a few years ago bought a compute cluster from them and I was really impressed with the work they did to assemble all the supermicro machines, do the testing, etc. They did a great job of racking the machines, cabling, and crating for delivery. I would definitely buy from them again.
Here's some pics of the cluster being delivered: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phrenologist/sets/72157600087016416/with/519047882/ P. On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:39 -0500, "Adam Tauno Williams" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 08:56 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > > On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams > > > > > > > Most recently we've used the Sun x4170 with the Nehalem processors, > > > > and I'm probably looking for something similar (although perhaps with > > > > Westmere now). I'll probably consider Dell and HP, but I will also > > > > look at 'white box' vendors. I seem to remember hearing good things > > > > about Silicon Mechanics. > > > +1 We purchases SM boxes for our virtualization effort they've been > > > solid and the SM staff were responsive and informed [which is more that > > > I can say for some other vendors]. > > "SM" is ambiguous, especially in context here... Sun Microsystems, Super > > Micro, Silicon Mechanic > > It isn't ambiguous relative to where it occured in the thread, of from > the quote. :) > > SM = Silicon Mechanics. > > Which are, I believe, mostly labelled SuperMicro boxes - but Silicon > Mechanics has done all the tedious research, part matching, > compatibility testing, etc... that sometimes seems to fall to the > customer with SuperMicro. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Philip J. Hollenback [email protected] www.hollenback.net _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
