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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:44:46PM +0000, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote: > 1. Hyper-threading should be turned off everywhere. I don't agree on that. We have it turned on but don't advertise it so that jobs usually beleives that it's not there leaving the "second" cpu for system processes. It works pretty good. > 3. Intel Itaniums currently have PCI-X support, which gives them some > improved device access, however > > 4. The next generation of AMD 64-bit processors will support PCI-X Do you really mean PCI-X? Most all server boards have had PCI-X support since at least a year ago. All our Opterons have it. -- Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Internet: [log in to unmask] Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90 7866126 Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se