Ellis Wilson wrote: > > Also interesting is that they use Gigabyte - I haven't been entirely > impressed with them and that is for purely desktop use. Perhaps their > server grade boards are better quality enough to make them worthwhile at
Google probably uses Gigabyte because they have the best performance/cost ratio, rather than outright performance. Or just the cheapest. When you have thousands, it's probably cheaper to add more than spend more $$/unit for that incremental performance increase. Or it could be because they make motherboards that convert 12 VDC to 5 VDC on the motherboard. This article was the first time I ever heard of that, so I'm not sure if that's a unique feature of the Gigabyte boards, or even unusual. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
