On 8/22/07, Tim Scanlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had good results with Tyan boards, with Opterons on them. The speeds > I've seen on them have been outstanding. Multi-cpu systems worked out of the > box with them too.
I've heard got things about Tyan and AMD. (I have an old ASUS SK8N myself) > It's sort of important to look at what a manufacturer has been doing in the > past with multi-cpu systems now that multi-core systems are becoming more > common. Tyan has a decent track record with them allready. > > If speed is really important I'd go with Opterons, it's a nice combination > with Solaris, and they're capable of better performance than Intels are. > They're also more tuneable than Intel's are, and that's kind of nice to have > going on. So what do you think of this board? ;) http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=496 16 cores and 64GB in 1U!! ($1500 for the barebones). (It's out of my personal budget). > It probably doesn't matter much now, but one hint with the HCL and x86 > hardware is to look for drivers for other versions of Solaris. I have used > Dell x86 drivers for Solaris 7 on Solaris 10 with no problem for instance, so > that's something you can potentially do when looking at hardware reuse. I assume this would only work for 32 bit systems? -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
