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HP prices are... high. It's easy to spend $10k in processors alone for a dual-Xeon system. The ones mentioned in the article will be over $13k each: https://
by the_real_sparky 9y ago
HP prices are... high. It's easy to spend $10k in processors alone for a dual-Xeon system. The ones mentioned in the article will be over $13k each: https://ark.intel.com/products/120498/Intel-Xeon-Platinum-8180M-Processor-38_5M-Cache-2_50-GHz https://ark.intel.com/products/120498/Intel-Xeon-Platinum-81...
- yeukhon 9y agoIf you are talking about srlf-build, there is reason to avoid that for people who can afford. It is called warranty. Hardware rig like this goes through testing and the support package usually is pretty good. I don't have first-hand experience, but I know Oracle would send engineers onsite to troubleshoot if required. Unless you are ready to tackle the build, the testing, and the support of the hardware rig, you want to avoid. You don't have to be Dropbox or Netflix (I don't believe they build custom servers like facebook and Google does, perhaps they buy from other vendors or from opencompute project).
- PaulRobinson 9y agoI believe both Dropbox and Netflix are very, very cloud (specifically AWS), heavy.
- yeukhon 9y agoThey are, but they have their own boxes for critical infrastructure. Dropbox, however, moved a lot off of AWS.
- danieldk 9y agoIndeed, we recently asked invoices for a new machine for deep learning with 768GB memory, modern Xeon CPUs and the latest generation nVidia Tesla. The HP offer costed nearly twice as much as Dell's.