Art, There is a specific list for suse on AMD64: suse-amd64@suse.com. There is a high signal to noise ratio and two of the Suse developers regularly post there. I would expect 64-bit kernel to work and be supported on both of these CPUs - often the portability issues are more to do with the Mobo's - Sata, Nvidea et al. also IMHO the 'FX is basically the same chip as the Opteron - and can be used in dual-cpu servers. The 3400+ is just a x86 souped up to 64-bit instruction set and registers and doesn't have the dual-channel integrated memory controller like the FX and Opteron have. Apart from cost, I don't see at as an obvious choice for clusters. Yours, Daniel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. daniel.kidger@quadrics.com One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com --------------------
-----Original Message----- From: Arthur H. Edwards [mailto:edwardsa@plk.af.mil] Sent: 09 April 2004 23:38 To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Newbie AMD 64
We are about to purchase several flavors of AMD 64 (at least the Opteron and either 3400+ or FX-53). My question is whether Suse 64 kernel supports all of these architectures at the 64 bit level.
-- Art Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research Laboratory Electronics Foundations Branch KAFB, New Mexico
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