Recent AMD760MPX chipset PCI measurements??
Paul Lu
paullu at cs.ualberta.ca
Tue Feb 12 22:00:11 PST 2002
Hello Patrick
Thank you for your very detailed answer. It is much appreciated.
As you may know, I've got 16 nodes worth of Myrinet already on order :-) :-)
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:26:19AM -0500, Patrick Geoffray wrote:
> Ok, briefly: the MPX chipset is, in my opinion a very good one. It's
> certainely not as good as the serverworks one, but it's still very
> attractive for several reasons:
Agreed.
What I failed to mention is that I've decided to go with the 760MPX
chipset. I want the AMD CPUs. And I wanted the headroom, but I'm swayed
by realities.
> And something I like a lot about the MPX design is that the AGP bus is
> bridged from the 64/66 PCI, and the bridged is implemented on both ways:
> it's possible to send/recv to/from the memory on a AGP video card. Some
> cool parallel rendering and video transfert can be done...
Yes, very cool. For us, the nodes are compute nodes, so video is not
a factor. :-) In fact, in order to fit Myrinet, GigE, and SCSI (on-
board SCSI is another aspect of our ServerWorks boards that I will miss)
into a 2U chassis, we may have to leave out the video cards. :-) :-)
Thanks again,
...Paul
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