On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 at 12:15pm, Feizhou wrote > You will do better to get an Opteron based server. Opterons handle SSL > faster, in fact much faster, than Intel Xeon processors not to mention that > I/O on an Opteron box is better too. Stay away from Woodcrest Xeon servers. > The US Government and a large korean ISP have had stability problems with > Woodcrest servers. Do you have any more details on said stability problems (e.g. hardware specs, etc)? I've been very impressed with the Woodcrest Xeon tester I've got -- in fact, it bests my Opterons in almost every benchmark I throw at it, and it's been rock solid. I'm leaning pretty hard in that direction for my next cluster upgrade. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University