Yes, where I work we have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 or 7.2 running on a (4)-processor 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon 1 MB L2 cache machine to do parallel experiments, and it runs fine ...
Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Jim Dewar > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake > > > COOL!! > i have a dual p2 and love it. > > quad would be even cooler! > > just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode > simultaneously...... not > preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously..... cool. > > maybe that isn't really a big deal to most people, but for > some reason i get > a real charge out of it. > > or work on cracking RC5 codes..... > > moose. > > > On April 22, 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: > > I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium > Pro server with > > 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing > out at work > > and we drew straws who gets what. > > > > Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've > never looked > > into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is > it possible > > with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other compatibility > > issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. DTP or > something > > like that I hear. > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > >
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