On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:37:53PM -0500, Michael C. Wu wrote:
We are looking into building a big machine
for scientific computing. And I am wondering
about the status of FreeBSD on the hardware.
The processes are very large memory-bound stuff.
We plan to use the Tyan S4881 motherboard, with
dual-core opterons, and probably fill up the
board with 4GB RAM. This board has 16 DIMM slots,
and we plan to have RAM in all of the slots.
I don't have the s4881 motherboard, but I would be
surprized if FreeBSD did not work on it.
My research group recent purchased a small hyperblade
cluster from Appro.com. The system has 6 nodes that
are based on the s2881 motherboard with 2 dual-core
2.4 GHz opteron, 16 GB of memory, and 233 GB hard drives.
MPICH2 and gfortran appear to work quite nicely on
the cluster. The cluster includes a GigE switch, which
I hope to replace with infiniband or myrinet in the
future.
I have no experience with the daughter board you mentioned.
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