Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:36:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley231.res.iastate.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT: NIC/MB advice needed for cluster... Message-ID: <9882.864272169@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 May 1997 20:15:12 CDT." <199705220115.UAA02426@friley231.res.iastate.edu>
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> We are about to purchase 64 dual ppro200's for a large cluster > that we are creating, and I needed some advice/information. Depending > on how things work out, I may end up managing about 90 linux boxes. :( You and your company will hate this option much more over the long run, I am quite sure, de21140 support or not. :-) > due to its somewhat better support of the de21140 cards. Essentially, > if we can get better functionality/benchmarks out of FreeBSD, we will > likely go with that. We must get this money spent by July 20 or so, > so we dont really have much more time to order/test MB/NIC combinations. Have you tried Matt Thomas's latest FreeBSD driver? I believe he's advertised a URL for it several times in this mailing list. > 1. How well does the Etherexpress PRO/100 work currently? Does this card > work well in full duplex mode, and would I be able to have 4 of them per > box without any trouble? ftp.cdrom.com uses a PRO/100 to very good effect, yes it supports full duplex and I don't see any reason why 4 in a box wouldn't work. > 2. We are thinking of buying ASUS P65UP5, or Intel PR440FX boards. I know > ASUS makes great boards, but we could save a lot of money with the Intel. They should all work fine, including onboard NIC. > cards, and memory (ECC DIMM's seem much cheaper..), but is it wise? Sure. Some of the new MBs with Adaptec SCSI chip and Intel NIC on board are pretty good deals, and a PCI slot saved is nothing to turn one's nose up at. > 3. When will the new de driver come to FreeBSD? This would help with our > currently installed base. I don't think it's far off. It'd probably go faster if people helped test Matt's latest submission, in fact. :-) Jordan
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