Intel P35 / quad-core support for HPC applications

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Hello all,

Does anyone have experience with CentOS and the Intel P35 or G33 chipset? I've googled about and poked in the CentOS forums, but I've generally found questions without responses.

I'm part of a university research group doing CFD (computational fluid dynamics). We're incrementally updating our computing power and have been looking at Intel quad-cores and the P35 or G33 chipset. We're particularly interested in motherboards with DDR2-1066 support. As we're in a production environment, we're more interested in reliability than squeezing out that last fraction of a percent of performance (I'm aware of the inherent contradiction in stating this as we're extending a bit on to the leading edge with this hardware selection).

We've patched and rolled custom kernels in the past, but would just as soon not again. Hence, I'd be grateful if you're willing to share your specific experiences with CentOS and P35 or G33 motherboards. I'll compile the responses I get and post them in a consolidated message.

Secondarily, I'd like to connect with anyone else doing similar work and/or in similar environments. Currently, we're running a 22-node, diskless (I believe the favored buzzword is now "stateless") cluster of mostly Athlon XP 2500 processors. It's on Centos 3 with Warewulf 2.1.12.

Thanks,
Henry

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Henry Shiu
California Wind Energy Collaborative
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA  95616-5294
(530) 752-2261
http://cwec.ucdavis.edu/

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