Hi,
What exactly do you need all this setup for? It should really make no difference
whether you use PIII or AMD for one or the other, but consider these:
1. AMD is cheaper
2. AMD might be able to perform faster
3. (Pentiums are generally more heat tolerant than AMD)
4. You need to compile at least 2 kernels (one for the server, and atleast one for all
the nodes) and you can optimise the code for the processor on which it runs
5. If you are planning to run Disk IO intensive tasks, you might be better off buying
a HDD for each or at least 100Mbps cards and SCSI for the server. You also need NFS
and DHCP (and preferably DNS) on the server.
6. If you want to run processor intensive tasks you need more RAM on the (diskless)
nodes (maybe a Beo cluster?)
I've run a couple of P166/32MB off a K6-2-400/64MB/IDE over 10Mbps and it runs very
good (you can launch StarOffice and Netscape or start pvmpov (with a couple of
additional PII ) ).
best wishes,
Indraneel
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:53:03AM -0700, Prashanth Venkatesh wrote:
> I am planning to setup a diskless node , for our
> office.But our nodes have AMD processors.The Linux
> server runs on pentium III machine.Will this in any
> way affect the setup ?
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