From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 13:29:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38F716A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:29:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BA743D39 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0KLTmaT016843; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:29:48 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i0KLTmcu016842; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:29:48 -0800 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:29:48 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "dkouroun@mailbox.gr" Message-ID: <20040120212948.GB11747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200401202024.WAA04531@mailbox.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401202024.WAA04531@mailbox.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which one of the systems is best for my X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:29:59 -0000 --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--