[K12OSN] dual Xeon and FC1

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

>Doug,
>	it seems that people have mixed results with large memory kernels
>on 32 bit systems. The problem is that the tricks used to move around
>pages to actually access memory over 4GB don't always play well with all
>mobos and processors. I had dismal results, others reported excellent
>results, ymmv. the new 64 bit xeons will be available shortly. it might be
>worth the wait, since all the extended memory issues are moot on them.
>julius
>  
>

Fortunately, you don't have to wait.  There are quite a few companies 
that sell and support two-way and four-way boxes with the 64-bit AMD 
Opteron.  Penguin Computing is among them, as is MicroWay.

--TP