[svlug] Hardware: What motherboard is good for Xeons?

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya yani..

> Does anyone have experience running xeons (quad xeons?) under linux? 

not much options at that level...

> People here at eToys are arguing about what motherboard will work for
> setting this up.  Apparently there was a quad xeon operational and on
> display at the O'reilly Opensource Developers Day - would anybody on
> this list know what motherboard it had in it?

I donno...but VA Research sells those multiprocessor puppies...

which is better ??
	4 cpu's in one box or 4 boxes with one cpu ???
	- depends on purpose of the system ?
	- depends on the apps running ?
	- depends on if the apps can run jobs on 4 cpus at the same time
	- depends on whether reliability and fault tolerance is an issue
	- depends on whether hot-backup/mirror is needed

just a xeon cpu is about $1400.... quad xeon is a nice box....!!!
maybe we can run vi or emacs really really fast... hehheehheee :-)

hummm...
alvin
"Can I build one for you ?"   -- forgot who had that "jingle"

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