[Gllug] Re: dual cpu mobo

[neil c]

Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm thinking about buying a dual cpu mobo. I'd be looking for
>something that can handle a minimum of two 1GHz cpus.
>
>Other nice to haves are the ability to monitor the h/w status
>through lm_sensors.
>
>Please note that this is not just a speed thing so don't just
>warn me about the fact that it won't be anywhere near twice as
>quick! ;-) I'd like to learn more about running smp.
>
>Any suggestions/tales of woe greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>  
>
I read Shared Data Clusters 
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047118070X/104-5464625-1195952?v=glance)  
which had a very nice section on SMP architectures. If you do a search 
in Amazon for Data Clusters you'll get a load of hits with some very 
interesting looking titles including a few Linux specific ones.

I've been running linux on SMP architectures for a couple of years now 
and it just works. Gkrellm does a nice job of monitoring the load as 
does top.

I want a 4 way Opteron next in the vain hope that it will launch firefox 
a bit quicker ;-)

cheers,
neil
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