[Bioclusters] Opterons and Linux

[Dow Hurst]

If you can afford it, you should look at the quad Opterons.  Your 
interconnects will be less expensive for the same number of CPUs.  Others have 
already answered your question, but I thought you might be interested.  Look 
at the Tyan quad motherboard.  Here is a review to look at:

http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000275

Here are specs for power for a quad Opteron cluster we are getting quoted on:

Quad 846 Opteron Slave Node at 120V 5A, 575Watts, 1962BTUs/hr

I've gotten quotes from Microway, Aspen, and PSSC so far on quad Opteron based 
clusters so the hardware is available from vendors.

Hope that helps!
Dow

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