On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.grosclaude@gmail.com 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
Hello!
We need more details... what's your budget, what processor are you looking at?
SMB just means Small / Medium Business ... as opposed to a huge enterprise server that might have four or eight sockets...
Name a vendor, I've probably had some sort of trouble with them... of the "Big Names", Intel is probably the least troublesome. I just returned a bad Tyan board, and late last year returned two Supermicro servers that were shipped with out of date hardware (not supporting 5400 series CPU). I have an Asus board that runs Linux and Opensolaris just fine, but will not allow any version of Windows to install.
I hope this is some help to you.
Gordon