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Re: Talos II Lite

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Post by filereaper »

dragontamer wrote: post #32

Okay, this is cost-effective. I really like this, although I'm not in the market for one. Ignore the 4-core and 8-core options. But they seem to exist as a potential cheap option to draw in some eyes (maybe??). But they're not worth it IMO. But the 18-core Power9 intrigues me and seems very well priced. Threadripper 1950x is 16-cores / quad-memory channel for $900 (sometimes $699), but is way "smaller" than Power9 18…

> (lol @ all 5 people in the world who know how to use those)

Red 1 of 5 here, standing by...

Re: Talos II Lite

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Post by rbanffy »

kinsomo wrote: post #28
rbanffy wrote: post #10

My biggest complain is that it looks too much like a PC by default. I remember the distinctive looks of the beige-and-purple Sun and always colorful SGI boxes. But I totally understand why one would no go for a custom case when they are trying to make it less expensive. Heck... I may get one.

> My biggest complain is that it looks too much like a PC by default. I remember the distinctive looks of the beige-and-purple Sun and always colorful SGI boxes. You could always spray-paint the case Indigo :)

Maybe that would suffice to give the machine a distinctive look. I remember the way the BeBox advertised the fact it had two CPUs by having two prominent LED bars indicating processor usage or how (now talking about supercomputing) the Connection Machines used LED matrixes to show activity.

Re: Talos II Lite

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Post by rbanffy »

zlynx wrote: post #39
rbanffy wrote: post #10

My biggest complain is that it looks too much like a PC by default. I remember the distinctive looks of the beige-and-purple Sun and always colorful SGI boxes. But I totally understand why one would no go for a custom case when they are trying to make it less expensive. Heck... I may get one.

PC cases come in all kinds of shapes. You can get them shaped like yachts or the starship Enterprise. As long as it has enough space to fit the board in there anything goes. You probably can't buy one from Dell or HP like that but look at the custom PC builder stuff.

True, but having a distinctive look is part of creating mind share. When you walk into a all-Apple office, you'll see very unique-looking laptops and desktops. That's part of what makes the brand valuable.

Raptor could derive some extra points from a unique enough case. Deepcool, Lian Li and Corsair (the ones I found in less than 5 minutes) sll make some that, with a change in highlight color to match Raptor's logo, would exude the aura of quiet power you want from a professional workstation and, hopefully, make people want to put it on top of the desk instead of hidden under it. ;-)

Re: Talos II Lite

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Post by exikyut »

exikyut wrote: post #6

This got me sufficiently interested I started poking around and looking at pricing ("Add to cart") of all the different systems available. There are actually a few. In decreasing order of price: - Both the 2U and 4U rackmount servers are $5,475 (4U: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2SV2/purchase.html , 2U: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2SV1/purchase.html ). The only difference is 2 versus 3 SAS HBAs, 16…

WARNING / NOTICE / APOLOGY re pricing glitch/omission

I was tired when I wrote the above. While re-scanning my submitted posts for replies I just realized I made a major error/omission. (Fresh eyes when rereading, and all that. I realized of my own accord, FWIW.)

Each system has a base price listed at the top of the purchase page. This adds up to a total at the bottom of the list, which doesn't show on my screen without scrolling.

The prices in my previous post are the base price, not the total price. IOW, I was listing the motherboard/case/et al, and no CPU or RAM.

I MEANT to clarify this - that I was listing the base price, not the configured total - and I also remember intending to mention my curiosity as to why the base price was different for each system. I'd figured it was because it represented sundry costs such as enclosure/motherboard/etc. But I got distracted with playing with the pricing calculator and completely forgot to add this point! My apologies.

TL;DR, this means the systems are base price + cost for RAM and CPU. The "default" pricing for each system is:

- Talos II: $7,010

- 2U: $9,995

- 4U: $10,345

- Desktop Development System: $5,120

- Talos II Lite: $1,399 (no options, including CPU and RAM, are configured by default)

Re: Talos II Lite

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Post by equalunique »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #40

What workloads are people going to run on this?

I'm interested in simply porting software to this. The lowest-spec model will still run a compiler, which is mostly what I want.

As far as production applications go, Google seems to have found at least one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...

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