athlon board choice
David Thomas
davelists at imagesmiths.com
Thu Oct 3 12:35:01 CEST 2002
I've been researching a board for cluster computing. This is my wishlist
1. Dual Athlon
2. At least 2GB RAM capactity. DDR or other high-speed is critical.
3. midrange -- not dell or ibm for cost reasons
4. Integrated video and 10/100 NIC, dual NIC a plus, SCSI not necessary
5. 1U or 2U ATX form factor
6. Lots of hardware monitoring. ASIC/IPMI a must.
7. (of course) will run LinuxBIOS
I've tetatively settled on a Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 and I've had reasonable
experiences with the vendor in the past. For bios it says it's got a 4MB
flash chip and supports DMI 2.0. I'm new to LinuxBIOS so comments are
appreciated. There's a page at :
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7.html
and manual at
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/thunder/m_s2462_100.pdf
Thx
Dave
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