On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of them as "server boards", but then they recommend them as "for SMB", I'm somewhat puzzled about it. It would be nice to know what MBs you are using, pros and cons. Thank you in advance
Could you give us a bit more information on the HPC part? Is this clustering or computing?
I'll be buying a single machine first, building a cluster some time later. As this second move may be delayed for an unpredictable amount of time, what I am really interested in is understanding the thought process a seasoned technician (sysadmin? clusadmin?) may follow when selecting hardware.
Do you have high i/o needs?
Well, perhaps this is my real problem... Don't have enough info about applications. There are several of them but I think I/O is not at premium, rather CPU computing is.
Thank you very much, Christopher