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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:47:42 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Tyan S4881+M4881, SMP, 128GB RAM support?
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:37:53PM -0500, Michael C. Wu wrote:
> 
> We are looking into building a big machine
> for scientific computing.  And I am wondering
> about the status of FreeBSD on the hardware.
> 
> The processes are very large memory-bound stuff.
> 
> We plan to use the Tyan S4881 motherboard, with
> dual-core opterons, and probably fill up the
> board with 4GB RAM.  This board has 16 DIMM slots,
> and we plan to have RAM in all of the slots.
> 

I don't have the s4881 motherboard, but I would be
surprized if FreeBSD did not work on it. 

My research group recent purchased a small hyperblade
cluster from Appro.com.  The system has 6 nodes that
are based on the s2881 motherboard with 2 dual-core
2.4 GHz opteron, 16 GB of memory, and 233 GB hard drives.
MPICH2 and gfortran appear to work quite nicely on 
the cluster.  The cluster includes a GigE switch, which
I hope to replace with infiniband or myrinet in the
future.

I have no experience with the daughter board you mentioned.

-- 
Steve