Hi! I work at an institute of physics here in Argentina. We will receive some money from a foundation in Germany to buy some machines to use in numerical simulations and we want to build a cluster with them. We already have a cluster (we have 20 PII 500-400 and 15 Durons 700 and some Athlon 1 and 1.2 Ghz) but right now I'm a little behind the wave about hardware.... so I ask you guys some hints about the lasts compatibility problem that could arise with linux and the new hardware. For example.... I hear that the last Intel processor Pentium XP have problems with linux ... the machine runs slowly ... thing like that. My boss in the group target to Intel/Amd of about 2GHz , lots of memory... and I don' t have a clue about the motherboard( I read about problems with some mother that included some chipsets ). May be some info about cooling (how many fans are needed). We have to buy the machines in Germany (that is part of the agreement) and then send them back to Argentina. I don't read german... that' s a problem. :0 So we need to buy this parts without contact them personally ..... If some of you could help me with some possible configurations , it would be great to receive that information. TIA
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