Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:29:48 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "dkouroun@mailbox.gr" <dkouroun@mailbox.gr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which one of the systems is best for my Message-ID: <20040120212948.GB11747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200401202024.WAA04531@mailbox.gr> References: <200401202024.WAA04531@mailbox.gr>
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--GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [This would have been better to ask on -questions or -hardware.] On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:24:18PM +0200, dkouroun@mailbox.gr wrote: > Dear sirs, > Thank you for giving us for free the FreeBSD OS. It is a great relief > haveing an OS for free! I would like to ask you since I am a newbie > which is the Operating system which suits best for an Opteron dual > box? > Is it=20 > FreeBSD AMD64 or > FreeBSD IA64? FreeBSD AMD64 or i386 will run on an Opteron. IA64 will definatly not. > Can somebody install FreeBSD i386 on an Opteron Dual Box? Yes. This will be a good choice in many cases because third-party app support is still better. Hopefully this will change by 5.3 or so. > How much memory do those systems support? In i386 4GB unless there is PAE support (I'm not sure). With amd64, more then existing motherboards support. > Are they compatible with OpenMP and MPI ? Both of the opensource MPI implementations work fine and have ports (MPICH and LAM-MPI.) I don't know of a free OpenMP implemenation with FreeBSD support, but I haven't looked either. > Is there any Linux alternative to FreeBSD for 64bit OS (SuSe or > RedHat) which one would you suggested? Neither. This is a FreeBSD list. :-) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADZ3KXY6L6fI4GtQRAiUrAKC19VStoHjAawghJ0T+epqJHsBBRQCgzcax s1Tpxdw2Eyy1vdi8bDd18ms= =bStH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--
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