Hello We've been given the green light to explore a replacement to our current architecture. One of the ideas kicked around was a quad or dual processor Linux system. I know nothing about Linux systems with more than one processor. Anybody on this list with a happy story? A happy motherboard/CPU? I can't reveal too much other than to say that one of the user processes can currently switch to near realtime priority and there's about 20 other processes running with varying degrees of load. Dual independent X-servers would be great each with its own VGA but that's another hurdle. I guess the main question is: who's running the most simultaneous CPUs out there with stock kernels and stock motherboards? TIA & Cheers
fredagen den 21 januari 2005 09.37 skrev Pierre Patino:
Hello We've been given the green light to explore a replacement to our current architecture. One of the ideas kicked around was a quad or dual processor Linux system. I know nothing about Linux systems with more than one processor. Anybody on this list with a happy story? A happy motherboard/CPU?
We're very happy with our three Sun V20z. In our configuration with 2 CPUs (2.2GHz AMD 248), 4GB RAM and 2 30GB HDs. Physical enclosure 19in rackmount 1U high. It's incredibly noisy, though. Sounds like a jet fighter. Compared with other competitors it had a sursprisingly low price tag, too. -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Partner, Developer ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! mailto:Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com ! phone:+46-8-50304717 ! gsm:+46-70-3394717 ! fax:+46-8-50304701 ! http://www.cinnober.com !--
Hi Pierre: On Friday 21 January 2005 00:37, Pierre Patino wrote:
Hello We've been given the green light to explore a replacement to our current architecture. One of the ideas kicked around was a quad or dual processor Linux system. I know nothing about Linux systems with more than one processor. Anybody on this list with a happy story? A happy motherboard/CPU?
Happy story: Tyan s2885 w/dual Opteron 246. Fast & reliable. Suse 9.2, of course.
TIA & Cheers
Regards, - Darrell -- sused@mucus.com "Perfect! ....what am I doing?" -- Washu
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:13 -0800, Darrell Shively wrote:
Hi Pierre:
On Friday 21 January 2005 00:37, Pierre Patino wrote:
Hello We've been given the green light to explore a replacement to our current architecture. One of the ideas kicked around was a quad or dual processor Linux system. I know nothing about Linux systems with more than one processor. Anybody on this list with a happy story? A happy motherboard/CPU?
Happy story: Tyan s2885 w/dual Opteron 246. Fast & reliable. Suse 9.2, of course.
I've happily used linux on a range of dual processor boxes for the last 6-7 years IIRC. All the way from dual PIII (400MHz) to dual Opteron 240s. Most of these have been server boards like the Tyan S2882 which has been going OK with SuSE 9.2 Matthew -- Matthew Wild Tel.: +44 (0)1235 445173 M.Wild@rl.ac.uk URL http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/ World Data Centre - Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:37, Pierre Patino wrote:
Hello We've been given the green light to explore a replacement to our current architecture. One of the ideas kicked around was a quad or dual processor Linux system. I know nothing about Linux systems with more than one processor. Anybody on this list with a happy story? A happy motherboard/CPU? I can't reveal too much other than to say that one of the user processes can currently switch to near realtime priority and there's about 20 other processes running with varying degrees of load. Dual independent X-servers would be great each with its own VGA but that's another hurdle. I guess the main question is: who's running the most simultaneous CPUs out there with stock kernels and stock motherboards? TIA & Cheers
Running several Dual Opteron 250's with either 8GB of PC3200 or 16GB of PC2700. Running SuSe 9.1 and 9.2. Considerable speed increase with the PC3200 memory due to how the Opteron's access memory. There are several people on the list running Quad Opteron servers with the Tyan 4882. And the sales guy here http://www.hpcsystems.com/products/svr_a5880hs_future.html told me they prefer SuSe as the OS for these lovely 8-way Opteron's. <drool> By the way i'll have 2 quad opteron's in a few weeks so i'll post more on how the implementation went. Brad Dameron Systems Administrator SeaTab Software www.seatab.com
We've got clusters with the Arima motherboard - dual cpu, 8 GB memory
Workstations with Tyan S2885, 16 GB, Nvidia graphics
Quad - Early Celestica, and testing a Tyan S4882 - 32 GB memory
We are running UnitedLinux with the latest kernel from kernel.org, Suse
9.0, Suse 9.1, haven't had too many problems once we got a stable
installation...
The machines are fast, and have had no problems with the quads at all...
Kevin Gassiot
Advanced Systems Group
Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC
10300 Town Park Dr.
Houston, Texas 77072
832-351-8978
kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com
Pierre Patino
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