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To: fyodor_ who wrote (17744)	11/5/2000 12:05:45 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 275872

fyo, I fully understand that ;), however, that's no reason not to go with racks. And, Joe, I don't buy the cost-issue either. We have our 8 node ("home built") P2 cluster in a rack. Fine, but somebody has to do it. And, if the kinds of features I mentioned in the other post are not available, no high volume customers are interested. I would think that's what AMD would be interested in eventually, not onesy twosey. Tony

To: fyodor_ who wrote (17744)	11/5/2000 12:06:20 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyo, - You don't need to buy cases - this offsets quite a bit of the cost of the racks themselves. I am not sure what kind of setup you have. Do you not have each individual node in it's own case? If you do, desktop or minitower is between $30 and $100, rack cases are $100 to $400 - You can use one or two big power supplies instead of one per node. Are you talking about UPS or system power supplies? I haven't seen power supplies with multiple motherboard connectors, but if it existed, it would defeat the reliability that multinode clusters offers, since this monster power supply would bring down a bunch of nodes with it if it died. Joe