From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 13:14:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.ppp.frii.com [216.17.133.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60E237B4C5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e9NKCml60588; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:13:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010232013.e9NKCml60588@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Allan Strand Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choosing a fairly high-speed compute server In-Reply-To: <867l6zween.fsf@linum.cofc.edu> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:12:48 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Oct 2000 15:22:56 -0400 Allan Strand wrote: +------------------ | SMP might ultimately be an option (even if not threaded?), but I was | thinking of starting with a 800Mhz PIII machine. Does this rambling | make sense? Can FBSD utilize the PIII features? Is there a | hi-performance computation in FBSD FAQ? +------------------ Sounds to me like you have your needs well defined. Still most of the Beowulf stuff applies equally well to FreeBSD as it does to Linux. You'll have to do the economics yourself but because of memory access issues it might be faster to run on two 500Mhz boxes than on one 1Ghz box. YMMV chris -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message