From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Nov 10 11:17:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from bud.itixs.com (bud.itixs.com [216.186.144.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58137152A4 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bifrost@itixs.com) Received: (qmail 527 invoked from network); 10 Nov 1999 00:31:45 -0000 Received: from fortress.itixs.com (@10.1.1.5) by bud.itixs.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 1999 00:31:45 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:31:36 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Sparks To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMI MegaPlex II In-Reply-To: <19991109144137.A5948@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Brooks Davis wrote: > I'm looking at building a cluster of quad proc Xeons using FreeBSD. I'm > wondering if anyone has any experience good or bad with the AMI MegaPlex > II system. Since these nodes won't have much disk the 4U version is > very attractive looking. They also have 64-bit PCI which would be nice > for use with Myrinet. We're funded to so we need to choose some > hardware and start getting quotes. I used one of AMI's quad PPro boxes with great success, unfortunately it was axed before we got FreeBSD-SMP running (I think a VP's kid stole it). I would say go for it, the only other manufacturers with 4 way boxes that I've seen are Compaq, Intel, and I'm sure GW2k and Dell have some decent boxes. 4U is *very* small for a 4way box so definately go for it :) Let me know how it works, I may be looking for similar hardware where I'm at. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message