Re:How much cash are we talking about? (Score 1)

Let's clarify the need and $$$.

Indeed, we are planning on running quite large
jobs on these servers, and therefore 64 bit
processors are required.

At the moment, the most likely scenario is:

- 1 x Sun V880, 8 x 900 MHz, 32 Gb RAM, 6 x 73G disks
- 1 x Sun V480, 4 x 900 MHz, 24 Gb RAM, 2 x 73 G disks
- 15 x Sun Blade 150, 1 x 550 MHz, 640 Mb RAM

We are considering the HP rx5670 as a possible
replacement for the V480, pricewise the two
machines are comparable, however, it seems that
Sun machine is considerable slower but runs
all the applications that we need (ILOG CPLEX,
MATLAB, ...).

Thanks for all the comments