On 08/09/2011 09:01 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:58 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote: > >> Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards. >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm >> >> I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them. > > Is there sufficient 'guts' on the Intel Atom to do useful work ? > > What type of tasks are you running ? > > > We use it as a captive portal, caching proxy, content filer, content server, and for remote system monitoring/management. So far it seems to have "guts" similar to the dual core AMD gateways we use in stationary locations managing up to 200 simultaneous connections. I haven't tested it in a 200 connection situation, but I expect it could handle the traffic. For now it will be used to manage less than 50 simultaneous connections, in a limited bandwidth (cellular 3G and 4G) connection to the Internet application. Emmett