Dual Opteron-kort fra ABIT

[Howard]

Dual Opteron-kort fra ABIT

ABIT har lansert et dual Opteron-hovedkort, som ifølge selskapet er spesielt rettet mot bruk i spillservere. Kortet er basert på brikkesett fra AMD og ULi.

 

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[Kenneth Dammyr]

Virker som et skikkelig realt kort!

 

8 SATA II-disker

[sveinsel]

Får vel ikke plass i et vanlig kabinett?

[Kenneth Dammyr]

Man må jo ha E-ATX kabinett uansett da. Eller en ekstra holder fra microplex, så er det ordna

Endret 14. oktober 2004 av kennethdammyr

[Bofur]

Virker som et skikkelig realt kort!

 

8 SATA II-disker

Eller

 

6 SATA hardisker og 2xSATA CD/DVD Drev

 

Bare tull at produsentene skal fortsette å produsere CD/DVD Drev med PATA grensesnitt

[sveinsel]

Bare tull at produsentene skal fortsette å produsere CD/DVD Drev med PATA grensesnitt

Forsåvidt enig, men mange har mye på PATA-disker liggende...

Man burde bestemme seg for et grensesnitt som skal vare 100år fram i tid. Slik at man kunne få god kontinuitet. Det er kjipt ar jeg ikke får lest gamle gode floppydisker.

[dj_j0tul]

hallo? ULi chipset????

 

Heter det ikke ALi?????

[tbend]

Bra med mange S-ataer, endelig noen som skjønner!

[snorreh]

hallo? ULi chipset????

 

Heter det ikke ALi?????

http://www.uli.com.tw/about.php

ULi Electronics Inc. (ULi), is a subsidiary company of ALi Corporation that focuses on the marketing and sales, R&D, and technical support for core logic chipsets and other related host-based peripherals.

[t_k]

Åhhhhh. Har lyst på ett nytt Dual CPU Abit hovedkort.

 

Har enda min BP6 some lever og er enda i toppform med sine to planslipte og overklokkede "super raske" Celeron CPU'er.

 

Jeg kommer faktisk til å gråte den dagen min gamle BP6 tar kvelden.

[snorreh]

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20041014PR204.html

This dual-AMD-Opteron board was designed with the heavy load requirements of the game server in mind, said Thirlwell. The SU-2S has four 64-bit Gigabit network interfaces for managing the bandwidth that online gaming demands, Thirlwell explained. In addition, the board features AMD’s HyperTransport technology for handling the extremely wide data transfer rates that are known to hamper some game servers, Thirlwell contended.

 

For data storage, the SU-2S includes a Marvell 88SX-6081 8-channel SATA-2 controller with a 3Gbps data transfer rate and NCQ (Native Command Queuing). Inclusion of this on-board controller is intended to improve the server’s performance, explained Thirlwell. The on-board DIMM sockets support up to 8GB of DDR/400 RAM. The four Gigabit ports are all on the board’s PCI-X bus.

 

Abit’s goal is to work with software developers to build game servers specifically designed with the needs of gamers in mind, said Thirlwell. To do this, the company is working with the Taiwan government to build relationships with game-software developers in Taiwan. And in order to build better game-centric server hardware, Abit needs to know what the development community thinks is missing. The company believes that this approach will help all involved to refine hardware development for the game-server market, emphasized Thirlwell.

 

Currently, enterprise servers from Sun, IBM or HP are being used to host many of the massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), noted Thirlwell, adding that although these servers are high-end, they were meant for use as large enterprise-database and domain servers and were not specifically designed for servicing an online gaming environment. This is where Abit believes that development has been lacking, said Thirlwell, and Abit intends to fill that void by reaching out to software developers in the same way it has reached out to gamers.

 

Abit believes that thoroughly testing its motherboards under Linux puts the boards through the most rigorous testing procedures available, and with all of their game servers now running Red Hat Linux, it seemed the most logical approach, commented Thirlwell. The company is aiming to maintain its excellent ties with the open-source community, and consequently several different Linux distributions are used in testing, including Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and Gentoo Linux.