[Gllug] Re: AMD Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Sun Sep 7 11:49:01 UTC 2003


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:45:29PM +0200, John Hearns wrote:
> Well, as Ian has started the bragging :-)
> 
> I've been looking forward to working with Hammers/Opterons for some time,
> and I also am impressed with them.
> 
> I now work for http://www.clustervision.com 
> We recently put in a new cluster, composed of 35 dual Opterons in
> at Manchester University. Using the Rioworks HDAMA motherboard.
> Running the SuSE distribution for x86_64.
> We're running kernel 2.4.22 on these also, and they look quite stable.
> 
> Happy to talk to anyone further about these, or to discuss how they
> perform. Sticking my neck out here, they aren't some flaky weird hardware,
> I hope they are shaping up to be a serious compute platform.

Quite happy to see you debug these new beasts ... I won't touch one (at my expense)
for at least 6 months.

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