Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Felix Schulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/21/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given the fact that even a single Opteron machine is something rare, it > > seems > > that the prices are OK. Of course it may take you a while to find the right > > board for your needs..

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-21 Thread Felix Schulte
On 3/21/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the fact that even a single Opteron machine is something rare, it seems > that the prices are OK. Of course it may take you a while to find the right > board for your needs.. AMD 64 X2 serves the same purpose as single chip Opteron

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Getting even dual socket motherboards for dual core Opterons is > > difficult, let alone boards that have more sockets than that. > > Not really. MSI has the MASTER2-FAR and MASTER2-FAR7 for ATX > formactor machines. I just bo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-19 Thread Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer
UNIX admin wrote: ... unfortunately some interviews with AMD staff inidcate that there will be quadcore CPUs from AMD available soon... And where exactly will you get that motherboard that has 8 CPU sockets, > to hit the 32-bit CPU number? Getting even dual socket motherboards for dual cor

[osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-19 Thread UNIX admin
> ... unfortunately some interviews with AMD staff > inidcate that there > will be quadcore CPUs from AMD available soon... And where exactly will you get that motherboard that has 8 CPU sockets, to hit the 32-bit CPU number? Getting even dual socket motherboards for dual core Opterons is difficu

[osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-17 Thread Ken Mays
I think for the x64/AMD64 platforms there is a "work request" for 64-bit OSes to support 64 CPUs (SMP) and 1TB of memory per OS instance. ~K This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.or

[osol-discuss] Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-14 Thread Haik Aftandilian
Bart, > I'm not the RE, but in particular we want to make > sure to avoid > allocating any more memory at boot time than we > really need to... > and finding out how many CPUs are actually on the > machine very > early on in boot is tricky across the various > hardware platforms. > When this goes