[lug] Tyan - Typhoon DX-630 Personal Supercomputer ? Good Thing?

[Hugh Brown]

> c) any way to guage the objective performance of all these cpus in the
> real world combinations / configurations (answer hypothetical questions
> like i presented in "b" above - if you have 1 processor type x at speed a
> versus 2 processors of type y at z speed, etc)?
> 
> d) in the model spec'd in the link i posted, can i assume that later
> release linux distros support these xeon / dual core processors?  i ask
> because the model presented only offers support for windows-based servers.
> 
> thanks

random data points

c) we've noticed that on Vmware server, the single socket Dual Core box 
was a bit of a dog.  on a 2 socket box, the performance was much better 
(I don't think the 2 socket box had DC cpus but I'm not sure).

d) we've got RHEL running on Xeon/DC processors in an hp dl360 server, 
an hp xw8400 and an hpxw4400 (both "workstation" class machines).  I 
don't think the proc support will be so much the issue.  I would be 
concerned about whether or not all the various chipsets on the 
motherboards are supported.

Obviously mileage will vary.

Hugh