On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at 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 -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina