> Hardware-wise I'd say dual core opterons. One dual-core-opteron > performs better than two single-core at the same speed. Tyan makes > some boards that have four sockets, thereby giving you 8 cpu's (if you > need that many). Sun and HP also makes nice hardware although the Tyan > board is more competetive priced. just FYI: tyan makes a 8 socket motherboard (up to 16 cores!): http://www.swt.com/vx50.html It can be loaded with up to 128 gb memory if all the sockets are filled :). Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
