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Hi Martin, When I attended the LinuxWorld Expo in NYC back in January, I chatted with some folks at the AMD booth, as well as guys from Penguin Computing (where we bought our Opteron box). I was told that the Operton has this somewhat strange setup that the memory is controlled by one CPU. The net effect of this being that when both CPUs are running, one might only be running at around 90%

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had good experiences using R on Linux with dual AMD64 (Opteron) processors. I'm thinking of buying a couple of such servers, but I'd like to make sure R would work fine. The "R Installation and Administration" guide notes that there may be some problems with BLAS libraries. That's all I could find about R on AMD64. Please share your

Hi folks, we are using a Tyan TK8W 2885 Mainboard (latest BIOS) w/ 2 Dual Core Opteron 280EE and 8GB of RAM (4GB per Socket). Furthermore we run CentOS 5.1 w/ Xen 3.2.1. (build from SRPM). We also tried 3.2.0. I tried both, the CentOS 5.1 Xen Kernel as well as the latest RHEL 5.2 Kernel but we do not get two NUMA domains as we (in my opinion) are supposed to. Do we need to recompile anything?

Hi, I am planning to buy a new PC for computing simulations in R under Linux. I was searching the web/mailing list-archives for useful hints about the "optimal" choice of hardware - surprisingly I found no recent topics. As far as I know, R doesn't use threads, so I think that there should be no benefit in choosing a dual-processor machine. So the remaining affordable choices

Hello, We have a few systems where udevd seems to failing silently on Opteron based Centos 4 boxes. Has anyone else seen this? -geoff

I had my eye on the Tyan dual-Opteron mobos for awhile. I tried to find a posting *anywhere* sharing experiences with these boards under Linux. No such luck. So placing myself under the heading "Where Angles Fear to Tread," I went ahead and built a system anyway. Here's what I've learned. The specs: Tyan Thunder K8SE S2892, BIOS 1.01 2x Opteron 270, 2Ghz Dual-Core, retail

Has anybody here taken a HDD configured with an Opteron system, and then put it into an Athlon/64 and had it work? Are they interchangeable, like an Athlon/32 and a P3/P4? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

I've been planning to build a dual Opteron server for awhile. I'd like to get people's suggestions on a suitable motherboard. I've looked at the Tyan K8SE (S2892) and K8SRE (S2891) but would like to find more Linux-specific experiences with these boards. Some features I expect are at least 4 SATA (SATA-300?) ports, serial console support in the BIOS, USB 2.0 and IEEE-1394

I'm spec-ing a development server for some Haskell hackers. In particular, they need to be able to build and run the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (ghc), the x86_64 port of which isn't quite there yet. My current thought is to get an Opteron-based system, but load it (initially, at least) with the 32-bit i386 version of CentOS. That buys me near-term ghc compatibility. In the future,

Hi, I am a Masters student from Carnegie Mellon University. I am looking for a research topics for an Advanced OS & DS course we have. I wanted to know what is the current support for NUMA on Xen ? Does it support the IBM x440 and AMD64 Opteron ? Also, does the Xen scheduler do NUMA aware scheduling so it does not degrade the VM performace ? My group is currently looking into Scheduling

The patchset will add basic NUMA support to Xen (hypervisor only). We borrowed from Linux support for NUMA SRAT table parsing, discontiguous memory tracking (mem chunks), and cpu support (node_to_cpumask etc). The hypervisor parses the SRAT tables and constructs mappings for each node such as node to cpu mappings and memory range to node mappings. Using this information, we also modified the

Dear mailing-list members, In the days of cheap RAM and microarray applications feasting on memory, 64-bit computers become more and more useful - to actually make use of memory beyond the magic 4GB border. I would like to report the success of running 64-bit R on an Intel Xeon EM64T machine under Linux. Just like on an AMD Opteron, R v2.0.0 compiles fine (and out of the box) and is happily

Hi, I would like to ask the proper or recommended way of upgrading xen...? I started with 3.1.0 then upgraded to 3.2.1 but now I am not able to use the original system. Since I am not satisfied[*] with the current setup I would try to upgrade to 3.3.1 but it would be nice if something went wrong I could downgrade it to 3.2.x... It is a pitty that booting the previous xen image does not work

Hi, I would like to ask the proper or recommended way of upgrading xen...? I started with 3.1.0 then upgraded to 3.2.1 but now I am not able to use the original system. Since I am not satisfied[*] with the current setup I would try to upgrade to 3.3.1 but it would be nice if something went wrong I could downgrade it to 3.2.x... It is a pitty that booting the previous xen image does not work

The subject says it all really, I''m pretty sure the system and bios are NUMA aware but I''m not sure if it''s enabled? Is it supported in 3.2.1 stable? Thanks, Rob \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / |___ \ / | \ // _ \ ''_ \ |_ \ __) | | | / \ __/ | | | ___) | / __/ _| | /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)_____(_)_| (XEN) Xen version 3.2.1

From: Bruno Delbono <bruno.s.delbono at mail.ac> > I'm really sorry to start this thread again but I found something very > interesting I thought everyone should ^at least^ have a look at: > http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/06/4-dual-xeon-vs-e4500.html > This article takes into account a comparision of 4 dual xeon vs. e4500. > The author (not me!) talks about "A

Hi, The Gentoo-Wiki about Xen suggests, to add "-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" to CFLAGS and to recompile the whole system. So it seems, NPTL will work without problems (and without performance drawback) after that. Sweet! But i carefully read http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSpecificGlibc, and it says: "On 32-bit x86 platforms, Xen uses segmentation to provide protection of the

I am about to lease another server to be a backup web/mail server with a replicated mysql database. The current live server is a dual Xeon 2.8Ghz. Would I do better to get another Xeon server or an Opteron based server? My concerns are compatibility of the database and the SSL certificate currently running on the Xeon machine. Are these concerns unfounded? TIA Mike

i try another xen experiance on a AMD-Opteron 165 processor, but this happens: VmError: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your CPU and enabled in your BIOS? cat /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 35 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1000.000

Anyone running Asterisk on dual Opteron Server? Are there any special issues in a 64 bit environment and what is the capacity curve like?