[GRASS-user] install GRASS on linux, which is better -DELL Precision 690n or SUN Ultra 40 M2

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Hi, All

Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun – Ultra 40 M2 and Dell Precision 690n.

Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 – for a GIS course.

Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

Ultra 40 M2 $3,745
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. 2 x AMD Opteron 1207 Rev F Model 2214 (2.2 GHz/dual-core) processor, 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-667 ECC memory, 1 x 250GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD with Solaris 10 pre-installed, NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 PCI-Express graphics card, DVD Dual, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, two x16 PCI Express slots, two x8 PCI Express slots, one legacy PCI slot. Standard Configuration. RoHS-6 Compliant.

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM $3,326.80
Dell Precision Workstation 690n - 750W Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2,1333 edit
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media edit
2nd Processor None edit
Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) edit
Graphic Cards 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual DVI or Dual VGA Capable edit
Boot Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ edit
CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices 48X CD-ROM edit
2nd Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ edit

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On 4/26/07, jun liang <liangj@email.unc.edu> wrote:

Hi, All

     Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and
grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun – Ultra 40 M2 and Dell Precision
690n.

     Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 – for a GIS course.

     Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the
following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

Guess it depends on whether you vote Republican or Democrat. I heard
Dell was a cronnie of George W's.

--
Richard Greenwood
richard.greenwood@gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com

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Hi,

I think GRASS & most of it's dependencies & related applications are much better tried, & may be better supported on Linux than Solaris. However, I'd rate Sun hardware as generally superior to Dell. Also if I read the specs correctly, the Sun has 2 dual core CPU's, the Dell has one, so with 15 users & everything else being comparable, the Sun should be a better platform for your purposes.

I guess someone using Solaris may confirm that everything works fine, but with Linux, you pretty much know it will, so I suggest seeing if Sun will ship with Linux instead (generally I believe they will) & if so, go that way.

I'd also check that ALL the packages you want to run will work OK in a 64 bit environment. I'm still occasionally bitten by finding a 32bit app that won't run on 64bit (such as highly optimised applications with some assembler in them).

Cheers

Brent Wood

Hi, All

Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun – Ultra 40 M2 and Dell Precision 690n.

Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 – for a GIS course.

Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

---------------------------------------------------------------
Ultra 40 M2 $3,745
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. 2 x AMD Opteron 1207 Rev F Model 2214 (2.2 GHz/dual-core) processor, 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-667 ECC memory, 1 x 250GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD with Solaris 10 pre-installed, NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 PCI-Express graphics card, DVD Dual, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, two x16 PCI Express slots, two x8 PCI Express slots, one legacy PCI slot. Standard Configuration. RoHS-6 Compliant.

----------------------------------------------------------------

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM $3,326.80
Dell Precision Workstation 690n - 750W Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2,1333 edit
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media edit
2nd Processor None edit
Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) edit
Graphic Cards 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual DVI or Dual VGA Capable edit
Boot Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ edit
CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices 48X CD-ROM edit
2nd Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ edit

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Solaris is available for free, so I experimented with it on a PC I built before going back to my usual Suse. I've used Solaris at various places I worked, so it is linux like. However, I had a hard time installing linux software on it. [Granted I'm not the most linux literate person, but I find installing software on Suse to be straightforward.]

The Dell seems quite overpriced, but I haven't bought a PC off the shelf in years. Seems to be a local store could configure that for under $2k. I have twice the video RAM, 4x the hard drive, but used a 4400 AMD 64 bit dual core. AMD has bombed the price on the processors, so you could get a system using the AMD 64 X2 6000 for nearly half the price of my 4400cpu.

If you run Suse 10.2, it has software raid drivers for the Nforce4 chipset. I can't see building a system without RAID these days. A hardware RAID will have better performance, but GRASS is mostly CPU intensive rather than I/O intensive.

If you go with Dell, you need to insure that you get the full 4Gbytes of RAM actually being recognized by the mobo. There is an issue loosely known as the "memory remap". The bios has to perform this function on some mobos to get the full 4G in use. Note also you need to build GRASS youself rather than use a binary if you want to use large amounts of memory. For a 64bit OS, you would want to compile it anyway.

In the SCSI days, I bought a Sun hard drive, which was really a Fujisu. It was really loud. Never again. Everything I build uses Seagate drives.

Brent Wood wrote:

Hi,

I think GRASS & most of it's dependencies & related applications are much better tried, & may be better supported on Linux than Solaris. However, I'd rate Sun hardware as generally superior to Dell. Also if I read the specs correctly, the Sun has 2 dual core CPU's, the Dell has one, so with 15 users & everything else being comparable, the Sun should be a better platform for your purposes.

I guess someone using Solaris may confirm that everything works fine, but with Linux, you pretty much know it will, so I suggest seeing if Sun will ship with Linux instead (generally I believe they will) & if so, go that way.

I'd also check that ALL the packages you want to run will work OK in a 64 bit environment. I'm still occasionally bitten by finding a 32bit app that won't run on 64bit (such as highly optimised applications with some assembler in them).

Cheers

Brent Wood

Hi, All

Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun – Ultra 40 M2 and Dell Precision 690n.

Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 – for a GIS course.

Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

---------------------------------------------------------------
Ultra 40 M2 $3,745
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. 2 x AMD Opteron 1207 Rev F Model 2214 (2.2 GHz/dual-core) processor, 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-667 ECC memory, 1 x 250GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD with Solaris 10 pre-installed, NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 PCI-Express graphics card, DVD Dual, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, two x16 PCI Express slots, two x8 PCI Express slots, one legacy PCI slot. Standard Configuration. RoHS-6 Compliant.

----------------------------------------------------------------

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM $3,326.80
Dell Precision Workstation 690n - 750W Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2,1333 edit
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media edit
2nd Processor None edit
Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) edit
Graphic Cards 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual DVI or Dual VGA Capable edit
Boot Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ edit
CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices 48X CD-ROM edit
2nd Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ edit

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You mean running concurrently 15 grass sessions with dumb terminals?
Please consider however that AFAIK grass generally does not use more
than one processor (unsure what happens with >1 grass instances though).
Better do some research before buying. Please let us know your results.
All the best.
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jun liang ha scritto:

Hi, All

     Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux
and grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun – Ultra 40 M2 and Dell
Precision 690n.

     Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 – for a GIS course.

     Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the
following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

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http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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Thanks, Brent. I have contacted our local SUN retailer and they said only
Solaris 10 will be preinstalled - they will not preinstall Redhat, or other
Linux OS, since that's what they get from SUN. I have visited SUN's website
- pretty much the same thing, only Solaris 10 preinstalled and you have no
other options. Redhat and other windows systems supported, though.
For the number of CPUs installed, you can also add another CPU to Dell's
configuration, but the price will be higher.
SUN's educational matching grant program lists 3 different configurations
for Ultra40M2, the most expensive one (with 2*Opteron 2.66Ghz, 16G Mem) cost
about $8800, which is too expensive for us. The regular price for this will
be over $10,000.
Just wonder if it is worth to have dual CPU to run grass - for multi users
running grass. Does the performance improve a lot? Anyone here has
experiences?
I have googled comparisons between AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon (see following
links) and found they are close to each other. The latest Xeon performs
slight better than Opterons.
Thanks for any comments.

http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/1414204
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/10/26/intel_woodcrest_and_amd_opteron_battl
e_head_to_head/page2.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Wood [mailto:b.wood@niwa.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:56 PM
To: jun liang
Cc: grassuser@grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] install GRASS on linux, which is better -DELL
Precision 690n or SUN Ultra 40 M2

Hi,

I think GRASS & most of it's dependencies & related applications are
much better tried, & may be better supported on Linux than Solaris.
However, I'd rate Sun hardware as generally superior to Dell. Also if I
read the specs correctly, the Sun has 2 dual core CPU's, the Dell has
one, so with 15 users & everything else being comparable, the Sun should
be a better platform for your purposes.

I guess someone using Solaris may confirm that everything works fine,
but with Linux, you pretty much know it will, so I suggest seeing if Sun
will ship with Linux instead (generally I believe they will) & if so, go
that way.

I'd also check that ALL the packages you want to run will work OK in a
64 bit environment. I'm still occasionally bitten by finding a 32bit app
that won't run on 64bit (such as highly optimised applications with some
assembler in them).

Cheers

Brent Wood

Hi, All

Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and
grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun - Ultra 40 M2 and Dell
Precision 690n.

Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 - for a GIS course.

Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the
following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

---------------------------------------------------------------
Ultra 40 M2 $3,745
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. 2 x AMD Opteron 1207 Rev F Model 2214
(2.2 GHz/dual-core) processor, 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-667 ECC memory, 1 x
250GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD with Solaris 10 pre-installed, NVIDIA Quadro
FX1500 PCI-Express graphics card, DVD Dual, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet,
two x16 PCI Express slots, two x8 PCI Express slots, one legacy PCI
slot. Standard Configuration. RoHS-6 Compliant.

----------------------------------------------------------------

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM $3,326.80
Dell Precision Workstation 690n - 750W Dual Core IntelR XeonR
Processor 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2,1333 edit
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system
w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media edit
2nd Processor None edit
Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) edit
Graphic Cards 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual DVI or Dual
VGA Capable edit
Boot Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB
DataBurst CacheT edit
CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices 48X CD-ROM edit
2nd Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB
DataBurst CacheT edit

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The opterons are better at moving data around. You need to dig up the AMD papers, but I recall the opteron has additional "hyperchannels" as opposed to the AMD 64. My recollection is the hyperchannels make a big difference if you have multiple processors as individual chips. I don't know if that holds true for dual core chips, i.e. multiple processors on the same silicon. The AMD 64 is no slouch. If you go that route, you should read the datasheet on the particular processor since the ob-board RAM size varies. More RAM on the chip helps in the dual core applications.

I didn't log the numbers, but I believe the biggest grass run I ever did used 1.6GBytes of RAM. Since you need some RAM for the OS, a 2Gbyte computer will just barely do the job. Depending on the AMD 64 mobo, some can run the RAM interleaved, but this require 4 identical memory modules. I believe all the mobos require 2 RAM modules, i.e. they read the memory 128 bits wide.

My recommendation would be to buy/build a 4 Gbyte machine using four 1Gbyte RAMs on a dual core AMD 64. Go for multiple PCs, i.e. spread out the load. You should be able to get a system builder to put out each PC for around $1500. I'm using Gigabyte mobo with NForce4 chipset. It runs the memory both parallel and interleaved. It is a socket 939 board. The newer AM2 socket is closer to the Opteron, and used the lower latency DDR2 modules. however, the improvement is small, maybe 10%, since the old boards if stuffed to the max (i.e. 4 RAM modules) were very efficient with the older DDRs. BTW, I built my systems out of the Patriot low latency DDRs.

I'm using an ATI Radeon X800 video card, and thus far no problems with GRASS and Suse 10.2.

jun liang wrote:

Thanks, Brent. I have contacted our local SUN retailer and they said only
Solaris 10 will be preinstalled - they will not preinstall Redhat, or other
Linux OS, since that's what they get from SUN. I have visited SUN's website
- pretty much the same thing, only Solaris 10 preinstalled and you have no
other options. Redhat and other windows systems supported, though. For the number of CPUs installed, you can also add another CPU to Dell's
configuration, but the price will be higher.
SUN's educational matching grant program lists 3 different configurations
for Ultra40M2, the most expensive one (with 2*Opteron 2.66Ghz, 16G Mem) cost
about $8800, which is too expensive for us. The regular price for this will
be over $10,000. Just wonder if it is worth to have dual CPU to run grass - for multi users
running grass. Does the performance improve a lot? Anyone here has
experiences?
I have googled comparisons between AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon (see following
links) and found they are close to each other. The latest Xeon performs
slight better than Opterons. Thanks for any comments.

http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/1414204
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/10/26/intel_woodcrest_and_amd_opteron_battl
e_head_to_head/page2.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Wood [mailto:b.wood@niwa.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:56 PM
To: jun liang
Cc: grassuser@grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] install GRASS on linux, which is better -DELL
Precision 690n or SUN Ultra 40 M2

Hi,

I think GRASS & most of it's dependencies & related applications are much better tried, & may be better supported on Linux than Solaris. However, I'd rate Sun hardware as generally superior to Dell. Also if I read the specs correctly, the Sun has 2 dual core CPU's, the Dell has one, so with 15 users & everything else being comparable, the Sun should be a better platform for your purposes.

I guess someone using Solaris may confirm that everything works fine, but with Linux, you pretty much know it will, so I suggest seeing if Sun will ship with Linux instead (generally I believe they will) & if so, go that way.

I'd also check that ALL the packages you want to run will work OK in a 64 bit environment. I'm still occasionally bitten by finding a 32bit app that won't run on 64bit (such as highly optimised applications with some assembler in them).

Cheers

Brent Wood

Hi, All

Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun - Ultra 40 M2 and Dell Precision 690n.

Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 - for a GIS course.

Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the following are not the best choices? Thanks.

Jun

---------------------------------------------------------------
Ultra 40 M2 $3,745
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. 2 x AMD Opteron 1207 Rev F Model 2214 (2.2 GHz/dual-core) processor, 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-667 ECC memory, 1 x 250GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD with Solaris 10 pre-installed, NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 PCI-Express graphics card, DVD Dual, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, two x16 PCI Express slots, two x8 PCI Express slots, one legacy PCI slot. Standard Configuration. RoHS-6 Compliant.

----------------------------------------------------------------

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM $3,326.80
Dell Precision Workstation 690n - 750W Dual Core IntelR XeonR Processor 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2,1333 edit
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media edit
2nd Processor None edit
Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) edit
Graphic Cards 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual DVI or Dual VGA Capable edit
Boot Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst CacheT edit
CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices 48X CD-ROM edit
2nd Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst CacheT edit

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On 4/27/07, jun liang <liangj@email.unc.edu> wrote:

Just wonder if it is worth to have dual CPU to run grass - for multi users
running grass. Does the performance improve a lot? Anyone here has
experiences?

As someone mentioned previously, a lot of grass processing is
CPU-bound and it is very easy to crank a single processing core to
100% for extended periods of time .. with a single user. For multiple
users you will want at least 2 CPUs.

--
Matthew T. Perry
http://www.perrygeo.net

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete" - R. Buckminster Fuller

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Hi,

Am Freitag, 27. April 2007 22:50 schrieb jun liang:

Thanks, Brent. I have contacted our local SUN retailer and they said only
Solaris 10 will be preinstalled - they will not preinstall Redhat, or other
Linux OS, since that's what they get from SUN. I have visited SUN's website
- pretty much the same thing, only Solaris 10 preinstalled and you have no
other options. Redhat and other windows systems supported, though.
For the number of CPUs installed, you can also add another CPU to Dell's
configuration, but the price will be higher.
SUN's educational matching grant program lists 3 different configurations
for Ultra40M2, the most expensive one (with 2*Opteron 2.66Ghz, 16G Mem)
cost about $8800, which is too expensive for us. The regular price for this
will be over $10,000.
Just wonder if it is worth to have dual CPU to run grass - for multi users
running grass. Does the performance improve a lot? Anyone here has
experiences?

It depends on what the users are doing. If several people start grass modules
which are doing huge computation, they will benefit from many CPU's. The more
of CPU's and main memory you have,
the more people are able to work together at the same machine with an
acceptable working speed. If the users are only digitizing or displaying small
datasets, the number of CPU's is not that important.

If the machine is accessed remotely, the graphic card is not important, the
graphics stuff is done by the clients. You can safe some money .... .
More important is the number of separate network ports.

But i think, get as much CPU's and main memory as possible into
a very stable machine and if you are using Linux every body will be happy.

I have googled comparisons between AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon (see
following links) and found they are close to each other. The latest Xeon
performs slight better than Opterons.
Thanks for any comments.

IMHO the opteron processor has a better multi-processor design.
But Intel provides quad core CPU's .... . And in case of software which is not
multi-threaded (like GRASS), the CPU design is not that important. You
will benefit more if you can get two quad Xeons (8cores!) with lesser clock
speed into one machine instead of two dual core Opteron CPU's with higher
clock speed. But you can wait till summer when the new shiny quad core
opterons are available. :wink:

eg.: supermicro offers dual quad core systems.
But i have no clue of the price and stability... :
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7045/SYS-7045B-TR+.cfm

Just my two cent
Soeren

http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/1414204
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/10/26/intel_woodcrest_and_amd_opteron_batt
l e_head_to_head/page2.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Wood [mailto:b.wood@niwa.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:56 PM
To: jun liang
Cc: grassuser@grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] install GRASS on linux, which is better -DELL
Precision 690n or SUN Ultra 40 M2

Hi,

I think GRASS & most of it's dependencies & related applications are
much better tried, & may be better supported on Linux than Solaris.
However, I'd rate Sun hardware as generally superior to Dell. Also if I
read the specs correctly, the Sun has 2 dual core CPU's, the Dell has
one, so with 15 users & everything else being comparable, the Sun should
be a better platform for your purposes.

I guess someone using Solaris may confirm that everything works fine,
but with Linux, you pretty much know it will, so I suggest seeing if Sun
will ship with Linux instead (generally I believe they will) & if so, go
that way.

I'd also check that ALL the packages you want to run will work OK in a
64 bit environment. I'm still occasionally bitten by finding a 32bit app
that won't run on 64bit (such as highly optimised applications with some
assembler in them).

Cheers

Brent Wood

> Hi, All
>
> Need to make decision for purchasing a computer to install Linux and
> grass on it. I am looking at dell and sun - Ultra 40 M2 and Dell
> Precision 690n.
>
> Maximum users for using grass will be around 15 - for a GIS course.
>
> Could you commend on this and suggest some alternatives, if the
> following are not the best choices? Thanks.
>
> Jun
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Ultra 40 M2 $3,745
> Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. 2 x AMD Opteron 1207 Rev F Model 2214
> (2.2 GHz/dual-core) processor, 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-667 ECC memory, 1 x
> 250GB 7200 rpm SATA HDD with Solaris 10 pre-installed, NVIDIA Quadro
> FX1500 PCI-Express graphics card, DVD Dual, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet,
> two x16 PCI Express slots, two x8 PCI Express slots, one legacy PCI
> slot. Standard Configuration. RoHS-6 Compliant.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> BUILD YOUR SYSTEM $3,326.80
> Dell Precision Workstation 690n - 750W Dual Core IntelR XeonR
> Processor 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2,1333 edit
> Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system
> w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media edit
> 2nd Processor None edit
> Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) edit
> Graphic Cards 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual DVI or Dual
> VGA Capable edit
> Boot Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB
> DataBurst CacheT edit
> CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices 48X CD-ROM edit
> 2nd Hard Drive 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB
> DataBurst CacheT edit

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