From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Dec 9 22:12:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19497 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 22:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from cs.utah.edu (cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA19484 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 22:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu) Received: from fast.cs.utah.edu by cs.utah.edu (8.8.4/utah-2.21-cs) id XAA09167; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:12:38 -0700 (MST) Received: by fast.cs.utah.edu (8.6.10/utah-2.15-leaf) id XAA27088; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:12:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:12:37 -0700 From: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) Message-Id: <199712100612.XAA27088@fast.cs.utah.edu> To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, smp@csn.net Subject: Re: -current, goliath, smp -- problems Cc: smp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At COMDEX, AMI was showing off the Goliath II (Series 751). It (like the original Goliath) is a Quad Pentium Pro motherboard. some of the notable differences from the original goliath: - All processors are on the motherboard (no expensive CPU cards) - Doubled the number of DIMMS on the riser card to 16! 4GB max ram still does up to 4-way interleaving (if add DIMMS in 4's) - oversized ATXish (7 PCI + 3 EISA don't fit standard ATX) (appears to take 2 ATX power connectors, extended AT footprint) - integrated Symbios 53C875 UW SCSI (wide connector only) (it also has 1 IDE connector) - integrated 2MB SGRAM Mach64 (ATI) video [hey, it's a server board] >From what the guy at COMDEX was saying, it will still be $4000 or so. Note that it isn't on AMIs web page yet...they need to get some people to manufacture custom cases for it. Intel is anoying: Orion is the only chipset for a 4-way server. It doesn't even support EDO memory, and Intel won't sell faster Pentium Pro processors. Still, 4 1MB L2 200MHz Pentium Pros would probably scream... Kevin