[LinuxBIOS] Buying a new board for LinuxBios

[Rajkumar S]

Hi,

I am planning to buy a new board for a tiny cluster using Clustermatic. I am looking for a 
quard processor board, Which one would you suggest to buy so that I can use linuxbios on 
them for Clustermatic? I heard that tyan let's you buy board with linuxbios, is it true? I 
did not find any mention of it in their web site.

with warm regards,

raj

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hello Rajkumar,

Sorry for being curious, are you named after the "annavru", btw?
> I am planning to buy a new board for a tiny cluster using Clustermatic. I am looking for a 
> quard processor board, Which one would you suggest to buy so that I can use linuxbios on 
> them for Clustermatic? I heard that tyan let's you buy board with linuxbios, is it true? I 
> did not find any mention of it in their web site.

If you buy Tyan, you have a pretty good chance to get LinuxBIOS running
on the boards. The S4880 and S4882 are the two Quad boards supported
from Tyan.

There's another Quad board from Iwill which is equal to, or at least
very similar the the agami aruma board.

Otoh, if you are going to get a couple of nodes anyways for a cluster,
you might want to go with the cheaper 2cpu (and maybe dualcore) systems.

Stefan