> > I have had nightmare experiences in the past with "server-class" > > motherboards that barfed under SMP Linux.
SMP-specific barfage sounds very strange. might this have been in the dark ages with dual-intel boards that had bad apic buses? or athlon-mp's? things are very different now. I don't believe there's much of anything SMP-oriented that the board vendor needs to do... > I've had very good luck with SuperMicro for a while now. My preferred I tend to Tyan for supra-desktop machines, though expect most SuperMicro and MSI would also do OK. > dual core nodes use the H8DAR-T motherboard. The SATA chipset isn't > supported, but a 2 port 3ware fixes that right up (and is rock-solid to well, there is a sata_mv driver; I think I've seen positive reports: http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html#marvell _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
