ServerWorks chipset

Douglas Eadline deadline at plogic.com
Wed Oct 11 19:13:01 PDT 2000


On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, He, Ding wrote:

> >From supermicro webpage, 370DE6 uses HE-SL chipset.  Who knows the
> difference between LE, HE-SL and HE?
> 
> And from http://www.interpromicro.com/mb-superm.html, the price of DE6 is
> $595.  Is it correct?

I will check on this, but as far as I know the board is not shipping.
Can you actaully buy one from this company?

Doug
> 
> Eric
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Douglas Eadline <deadline at plogic.com>
> To: He, Ding <eric at evl.uic.edu>
> Cc: Jared Hodge <Jared_Hodge at iat.utexas.edu>; <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:32 AM
> Subject: Re: ServerWorks chipset
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, He, Ding wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody happen to know which one is more suitable for clustering:
> > > SuperMicro 370DL3 and 370DE6  ?
> >
> > The 370DE6 uses the HE chipset which supports interleaved memory.
> > This could be a big win for some applications.
> >
> > However, the 370DE6 is not shipping yet and looks to
> > be quite expensive (~$1500).
> >
> > Doug
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Jared Hodge <Jared_Hodge at iat.utexas.edu>
> > > To: <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:06 AM
> > > Subject: ServerWorks chipset
> > >
> > >
> > > > Here's part of an E-mail that I received from Myricom on the subject:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We have tested Supermicro 370DLE 370DL3 and Supermicro P-III DME.
> > > > They all work fine. The 370DLE and DL3 have better performance
> > > > since they use the RCC chipset rather than the intel840.
> > > >
> > > > We have also tested almost every intel-840 board we could find
> > > > including Tyan, Supermicro, Iwill.
> > > >
> > > > If you are using PCI64 cards from Myricom, then the
> > > > RCC is really a good chipset to use since Myrinet boards
> > > > can take full advantage of the excellent PCI bandwidth.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We're looking at upgrading our beowulf using the 370DLE, 800EB Mhz
> > > > processors (one per node to start) and 512MB RAM.  If anyone has
> > > > suggestions or warnings, please let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Jared
> > > >
> > > >
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