[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, alex j avriette wrote:

> >>> Okay, let me rephrase that:  How many thousands of individual
> >>> web servers can you run, without slowdowns, from a group of
> >>> Netras that cost the same as the z800?
> >>
> >> how much does a z800 cost?
> >
> > $375,000.
>
> retail, netras are $3000. we get 40% off that, for various reasons. so
> we could get 208.33 netras for that price. they come with two 100mbit
> nic's. youre telling me that your z800 is more cost effective? i just
> cant see it. i _know_ it hasnt got 208 cpu's... i _know_ it hasnt got
> 416 disks... i _know_ it hasnt got 416 nic's....

You don't *need* 208 CPU's if you're not approaching the bounds of the CPU
performance.

Peace...  Sridhar