[PLUG] Hardware for Drooling

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Eli Stair wrote:

> Sadly, the shipping on large cluster systems is exorbitantly expensive. At
> a firm I used to have a contract with, the shipping CRATE just for one rack
> reached nearly $1000 per chassis. The cost to ship it full was a number in
> the thousands... and that was just for a single 64-node rack.

   These are desktop systems. The article noted that the whole company turned
out to watch the FedEx driver load the carton in the truck.

Rich

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