Re:Google.ai
by ansible on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:52PM
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We just bought a used Xeon HP workstation for a build server. It is 7 years old. But a 24-core new workstation would be much more expensive. We're putting in some SSDs to speed up build times, and it came with 24GB of RAM, which is enough for our use cases. The price? $400 or so. It even came with a Quadro 5000 video card, though we weren't planning on GPU compute for this particular box.
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Re:Google.ai
by felipemnoa on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:10PM
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>>The price? $400 or so
Wow. The price is quite good. Is there some website you bought this from? How many cores?
>>But a 24-core new workstation would be much more expensive
Tell me about it. I've been checking the prices of a dual 24 core workstation and it is around $7K.
It's also a 24-core, dual-socket (12-cores per socket). There's a couple left on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z800-Workstation-2x-Xeon-x5670-2-...
The one downside of this box is that the power supply is totally proprietary to HP. Well, the motherboard too. So if one of those craps out, you're done, unless you can locate a spare cheaply.
It's also reeeeaaally heavy and draws a lot of power.