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To: KeithDust2000 who wrote (156648)	4/17/2005 3:12:33 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Only that Hurricane gets 150K instead of 102K You're being a bit dull there. The discounted price of IBM's hurricane platform, which puts 64mb of level 3 cache on the motherboard, is $18K with 2 CPUs. You'll have to do some brutal negotiating with your rep to get a basic 4CPU configuration in the door for $25K. HP's equivalent base platform is under $4K with dual CPUs. For another $4K you can populate it with dual core Opterons. You can buy 3 of the HP Opteron 4-ways for the price of 1 IBM 4-way. If you have $25K to spend, you can have an 8-way from HP that will blow the IBM out of the water (4 socket box with dual cores installed). The HP guys I talk to are just gloating over how far ahead their linup is compared to what Dell and IBM has.

To: KeithDust2000 who wrote (156648)	4/17/2005 10:59:10 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

Dear Keith: Whoops, I used the non Hurricane results by mistake. But with Hurricane $/TPCm is $7.03 (141K) vs $2.80 (130K). I suspect that if given IBM's FC storage arrays, that the Opteron 852 based HP DL585 would have fared much better. IBM had $721K of disk vs HP with $218K. Those FC drives and adapters are very costly. Without Hurricane and/or FC drives, their cost was near HP's, but they only got 102K vs 130K. This is with both using the same software. Of course, 875s may tip it the other way big time as 8P Xeons only score 156K from IBM and 143K from HP. 105K x 2 perhaps? Pete