There are several, though they lack some of the Tyan "features" http://networking.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Products_ServerBoard_Spec.asp?ProductID=83 http://www.iwillusa.com/products/ProductDetail.asp?vID=19 http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=K7D_Master_L The gigabyte looks good. I am building a test unit with it. BTW: on a single CPU machine, the Asus nForce2 gives a nice dual channel to ram. Without working at it, streams is reporting in the mid 1.1GB/s for triad. BLAST is latency bound, but having lots of memory bandwidth is great for the chemistry codes. The MPX760 based chipsets have hit 600-700 MB/s. The KT266a have hit about 800-900 MB/s. Not exactly a server MB, but interesting in its own right. On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:54, Chris Dagdigian wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone using anything other than Tyan mainboards for dual-AMD cluster > systems? Anyone with happy/unhappy motherboard related issues with > AMD-based systems? > > I've got a client who is looking at a bunch of vendor proposals for > 2.8ghz dual-Xeon cluster systems and several for dual Athlon MP2600+ > systems. One vendor is even quoting MP2800+ cpus which do not seem to be > officially released yet in volume from AMD. heh. > > Personally I've never had problems with Tyan but the customer has had > Tyan-related mainboard issues in the past and in general seems to feel a > slight sense of unease in that 100% of the Athlon-based proposals so far > are using Tyan boards. They are wondering if there are any serious > non-Tyan mainboards available that are suitable for dual-AMD use in a > technical computing environment. I'm guessing choice is pretty limited. > > What are people here using? Any recommendations? Are the current > generation dual-AMD server boards from Tyan giving anyone problems? > > Booards that I've seen in some the proposals: > > Compute nodes: (Tyan S2722) & (Tyan S2466N-4M) > Head nodes : (Tyan S2469) & (Tyan S2466N-4M) > > > Regards, > Chris -- Joseph Landman <landman@scalableinformatics.com>