On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:37:53PM -0500, Michael C. Wu wrote: > > We are looking into building a big machine > for scientific computing. And I am wondering > about the status of FreeBSD on the hardware. > > The processes are very large memory-bound stuff. > > We plan to use the Tyan S4881 motherboard, with > dual-core opterons, and probably fill up the > board with 4GB RAM. This board has 16 DIMM slots, > and we plan to have RAM in all of the slots. >
I don't have the s4881 motherboard, but I would be surprized if FreeBSD did not work on it. My research group recent purchased a small hyperblade cluster from Appro.com. The system has 6 nodes that are based on the s2881 motherboard with 2 dual-core 2.4 GHz opteron, 16 GB of memory, and 233 GB hard drives. MPICH2 and gfortran appear to work quite nicely on the cluster. The cluster includes a GigE switch, which I hope to replace with infiniband or myrinet in the future. I have no experience with the daughter board you mentioned. -- Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
