Jumped over to the Lenovo workstation world RIP Dell

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prc117f

Building out the new 2024 trading workstations and Lenovo has some really nice systems way better prices (40% lower) than the closest Dell Precision model. And the P7 is a significantly better chassis it even has an IPL diagnostics screen on the front like the IBM AS/400s etc.. Tool less etc..

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkStation/ThinkStation_P7/ThinkStation_P7_Spec.pdf
Its quite big and weighs 50 pounds. A deskside supercomputer.


I will be expanding it to 128gb to fill all 8 memory channels (307gb/s memory bandwidth) adding 2 Radeon Pro VII cards as well (13 teraflops double precision capacity 1024GB/s memory bandwidth with ECC)

adding an SN840 6.4tb SSD as well and a Lenovo PCI card for 4x Optane P1600x drives which will take the heavy random I/Os

P7 model
Processor Intel® Xeon® W7-3445 Processor (2.60 GHz up to 4.80 GHz)
Operating System Windows 11 Pro for Workstations 64
Graphic Card NVIDIA RTX™ A2000 12GB GDDR6
Memory 32 GB DDR5-4800MHz (RDIMM, ECC) - (2 x 16 GB)
Storage 2 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opal
AC Adapter / Power Supply 1400W
Pointing Device USB Optical Mouse
Keyboard USB, Traditional, Black - English (US)
WLAN Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 2x2 AX vPro® & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
Warranty 3 Years On-site
 
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toon said:
How much?
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For the P7 3595 USD
I bought the 6 sticks of memory for 500 dollars to get it to a total of 8 channels. Micron
The Radeon pro VIIs normally retailed for 1899 each I get them new for 300 each New old stock from a guy in Slovakia the pairs come in factory sealed cases with 2 sealed pairs per box.

the SSD WD SN840 normally retailed 2K but sourced them for 340 dollars new

always great deals for hardware out there. Whats amazing is in the 1990s A Cray Y-MP EL98 “small supercomputer” cost over 500K and did 0.001 Teraflops. Amazing how fast technology moves forward.

Last hurrah from Cray I remember was the CX1 deskside system.

https://www.englobe-tec.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CX1-Brochure.pdf
 
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I have heard that their customer support is not very good. Same thing with ongoing support for their computers? I have been looking at them but am not convinced to buy one.
 
prc117f said:
For the P7 3595 USD
I bought the 6 sticks of memory for 500 dollars to get it to a total of 8 channels. Micron
The Radeon pro VIIs normally retailed for 1899 each I get them new for 300 each New old stock from a guy in Slovakia the pairs come in factory sealed cases with 2 sealed pairs per box.

the SSD WD SN840 normally retailed 2K but sourced them for 340 dollars new

always great deals for hardware out there. Whats amazing is in the 1990s A Cray Y-MP EL98 “small supercomputer” cost over 500K and did 0.001 Teraflops. Amazing how fast technology moves forward.

Last hurrah from Cray I remember was the CX1 deskside system.

https://www.englobe-tec.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CX1-Brochure.pdf
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what are you crunching that needs this supercomputer?
 
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