HI
You can have at most two Pentium II or P III processors in a machine.
This isn't the case for Pentium (II III) Xenon processors. The Xeon will
support 4 processors out of the box (I have seen possible 8 processor
configurations, but I am not sure of there Linux compatability). as far
as Alpha's go, I am not sure.
For 100bt Ethernet, I would suggest the Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 PCI.
I have had good luck with it in the past on SMP machines. It is a little
more expensive then the others (D-Link, Netgear, etc..) but I think it is
worth it.
As far as large memory, I believe that you can put 1 Gig without any
kernel modifications, and 2 Gig with a few modifications. I heard
somewhere that you can put 3 Gig in, but I have no idea what kind of
modifications you would need.
Hope that helps.
Cris Wade
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Dylan A. Loomis wrote:
> I haven't been able to find a specific answers to some of these questions in
> the FAQ, so here goes. Will linux with SMP support:
>
> Running with:
> two (2) pentium II
> four (4) pentium II
> two (2) pentium III
> four (4) pentium III
> two (2) pentium II Xeon
> four (4) pentium II Xeon
> two (2) pentium III Xeon
> four (4) pentium III Xeon
> two (2) Alpha
>
> If not, is it a limitation of Linux or the processor?
>
> What I've seen _seems_ to suggest that all of the above should be supported
> but I'd like to know if anyone has this running? If you have any of the above
> running with linux-SMP and wouldn't be adverse to discussing your experience
> please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or post to this list.
>
> In addition I'd be interested to know what interface cards people have working,
> how much trouble they were to get working. Especially 100BT and Myrinet. Also
> large memory configs i.e. 1GB to 2GB of memory. The literature I've seen
> suggests that this is possible with minor kernel modifications.
>
> The intended application is a beowulf cluster running MPI.
>
> thanks in advance -DAL-
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