1-Regarding OS, is "Fedora Core 64bit" a good option for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+?
sure. distros are just desktop decoration, and anything recent will perform equally well. you do probably want 64b, but that's not rare.
2- Is SATA II HDD compatible with Fedora Core 64bit?
disks don't have compatibility - controllers do. so it depends on your motherboard choice. but I haven't seen any builtin controllers that don't work well.
3- Concerning RAM, is "2 GB 800 MHz DDR2" sufficient?
any general answer is wrong. 2G is a huge waste of money for some applications, and not nearly enough for others. you'll pay a noticable premium for ddr2/800 as opposed to ddr2/667, though, and might not notice the difference (again, depending on your workload).
there is only one general correlations I'll draw: many, many loosely-coupled and/or serial jobs have tiny memory footprints (so 2GB is overkill, and since
the cache is effective, higher bandwidth is wasted). it's hard to say anything useful about tighter-than-loose parallel jobs, since memory size/intensiveness varies a lot - moreso than for loose/serial, at least in my experience... regards, mark hahn. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
