Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:23:09 -0400 From: "Gibson, Jasen \(GE Indust, ConsInd, consultant\)" <jasen.gibson@ge.com> To: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Tyan S4881+M4881, SMP, 128GB RAM support? Message-ID: <888F5D88060A214ABEFED0011CF186620117B8C9@LOUMLVEM03.e2k.ad.ge.com>
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>On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:37:53PM -0500, Michael C. Wu wrote: > >I don't have the s4881 motherboard, but I would be >surprized if FreeBSD did not work on it.=20 > >My research group recent purchased a small hyperblade >cluster from Appro.com. The system has 6 nodes that >are based on the s2881 motherboard with 2 dual-core >2.4 GHz opteron, 16 GB of memory, and 233 GB hard drives. >MPICH2 and gfortran appear to work quite nicely on=20 >the cluster. The cluster includes a GigE switch, which >I hope to replace with infiniband or myrinet in the >future. > >I have no experience with the daughter board you mentioned. > >--=20 >Steve Hey Steve, are the drives on the SATA controller? I'm looking at a = couple Tyan's for production use as well, S28xx or S38xx series, and the = SATA/SATA II chipsets are the only thing that worry me. Not seeing any = promising experiences on the compatibility list on the freebsd.org = website. If I know at least one person has that SATA chipset working = fine, I'll feel much safer.
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