From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 17 19:31:02 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154AB3FC for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dg@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B084B2D25 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:31:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [192.168.23.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r8HJUqqF077681 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@pki2.com) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Glatting X-X-Sender: dennisg@btw.pki2.com To: iamatt Subject: Re: this 48-core box... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <52388C9B.6030205@foxbatcapital.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: r8HJUqqF077681 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: dg@pki2.com Cc: Michael Chen , FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:31:02 -0000 On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, iamatt wrote: > Hi. Not sure if you can use all cores. It has been and still is my > experience that SM is crap. We have several SM gpu and SM/Calxeda Arm > clusters and they really lack in may ways from ipmi to chassis management > to the corners they cut with the processor to memory mappings. > > I would consider looking at SGI UV, ultraviolet system for a fat node type > system but they are not cheap. We have plenty of those and they can build > it the way you want. Lead time is a couple of months due to build to > order. Support from SM sucks too. :) > On Sep 17, 2013 12:17 PM, "Michael Chen" wrote: > I have three personal systems and two work systems running using the H8DG6 MBs and they work fine. >> I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/**Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-** >> 1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-**2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?** >> pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=**item232f7195cc >> >> Does anyone have experience with it and can I use all the cores? >> >> Thanks! >> ______________________________**_________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org " >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >