Right, I was just pointing out a nice fast linux box. I think you want to leave yourself "headroom" if you're buying only one box.
Bob's point on agp/pci is well taken, but you should consider if the card is a 64bit/66MHz or what, the bandwidths are all well known at this point and there *still* aren't many (if any) 4 headed AGP cards that are known to work with linux...or windows... http://www.just2good.co.uk/index.php?ITFrameSet.php?ioBusTypes.htm is a nice summary of bus data, you can do the missing pieces yourself, a 64/66 bus will be roughly equivalent to the AGP(2x) line in the table. --Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of John Hodrien > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:06 AM > To: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Best single machine *Linux* hardware setup > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote: > > > I'd look at this years Linux Journal Ultimate Linux box, > here are the > > specs from www.pogolinux.com: > > > > Motherboard/chassis: Celestica A8440 (AMD-8131 Chipset) > > Memory: 16x PC2700 2048MB ECC REG (32GB) Network > interfaces: BCM5704 > > 10/100/1000 x 2 > > RAID: Adaptec ASR2200S > > Storage: Seagate ST336607LC 36GB U320 SCSI HDD x 4 > > Video: Appian Rushmore Quad-DVI PCI > > Audio: Creative Labs SB Audigy > > Power Supply: 500W Hotswap x 3 > > Miscellaneous: PC Floppy drive, IDE DVD-ROM, USB > > > > I'm guessing this machine would run either windows or > linux, and being > > a quad processor AMD64 it's probably got plenty of cycles. > > Okay, that's one end of the scale. If I can get the funding eh? > > What's suitable for video capture? Assuming an AMD64 setup, > what would be the minimum you'd spec for processors? > > As far as an access grid setup, isn't this somewhat over > beefed. The disks really don't matter a damn if you've got > 32G of RAM, and you'd never hit all that anyway. Something > like 2G a more reasonable amount for the AG, such that you'll > never hit disk under normal operations? > > Is the Rushmore significantly nicer than the G200 MMS? > Anyone looking at using twin PCIe cards to get four nicely 3D > accelerated outputs? > > jh > > -- > "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." > -- Pablo Picasso > >
