> > 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. > The information about the US Government throwing the Woodcrest solution out was 'reported' by the Inquirer. :D Perhaps IBM boxes...they also posted another interesting bit about Woodcrest and Intel 965 motherboards having problems with raid5...kind of like how there is bad mixing if you use ext3 + 3ware in RAID5 mode maybe. I am afraid that is all I can give you on this. The Korean portal one can be found below but it is entirely in korean. http://www.inews24.com/php/news_view.php?g_menu=020200&g_serial=225735 Something about overheating and FB-DIMM problems which was only encountered after the thing went live. How close to live are your benchmarks?