Scumbria - Re: " Suppose that Compaq can build four CPU's for $500.."
You are once again clueless about the cost of ALpha chips.
Why would DEC sell Alpha servers for $40,000 to $70,000 if the chips only cost $500? Hint - read the article below.
As for the Alpha being 2x faster than a XEON - I'm sure you could find perhaps one or two benchmarks that show that - so why don't you dig them up and show us?
Paul
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Digital to add AlphaServer model, cut
prices
By David Pendery
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 4:50 PM PT, May 4, 1998
Digital will announce on Tuesday the newest member of its AlphaServer family of servers, a
quad-processor model with Alpha 21164 processors running as fast as 600 MHz. Digital
will also announce pre-configured clusters and a round of price cuts on its AlphaServer line.
Digital CEO Bob Palmer, Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
will take the stage in New York to announce the new products, pricing, and a new
Digital-Oracle joint marketing agreement, a Digital representative said.
In addition to its four Alpha processors, the AlphaServer 4100 5/600 will feature
50-nanosecond memory and a CPU cache increased from 4MB to 8MB. As with most
Digital servers, the AlphaServer 4100 5/600 operates on Digital Unix, OpenVMS, or
Windows NT. The unit will soon be available with Digital's PowerStorm 4D51T
high-performance graphics subsystem.
Available now, AlphaServer 4100 5/600 prices start at $77,922 for a system sporting a
single processor, 1GB of memory, a 4.3GB hard drive, a Digital Unix or OpenVMS license,
and a three-year warranty.
Digital is also readying its new 21264 Alpha processor, code-name SV6, but details were
not available.
Digital's new Ready to Go Unix Clusters consist of pre-configured, dual-node systems using
the company's TruCluster software. Clustered configurations of AlphaServer 800s
(uniprocessor), 1200s (dual-processor) and 4100s (quad-processor) are now available,
starting at $51,040, with two servers, attached shared storage, licenses, and connecting
cables and terminators.
Digital will announce price reductions across the AlphaServer line. Models in the 4100
family will be cut by as much as 11 percent, in the 800 family by as much as 20 percent, in
the 1200 family by as much as 10 percent, and in the 8200 and 8400 lines by as much as
17 percent. Prices of memory will be reduced by as much as 30 percent, the Digital
representative said.
Digital Equipment Corp., in Maynard, Mass., can be reached at (800) 344-4825 or
digital.com.
David Pendery is a reporter for InfoWorld.
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