[wellylug] Iwill SFF Dual Opteron demo ??

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Hi Brent,

Just thought I would let you know that you can borrow my SuSE 9.1 DVD whenever
you are ready ;) 

I take it you are going to be spending quite a bit of time at sea if the Iwill
performs well.

Quoting Wood Brent <pcreso at pcreso.com>:

> 
> I've just been told that there should be a demo available of the Iwill
> ZMAX
> dual Opteron SFF system in NZ in the next couple of weeks.
> 
> http://www.iwill.net/zmax/zmaxdp_1.asp
> 
> I'm down on the list of those who wanna play with such toys :-) I can't
> guarantee getting hold of it, but if I'm lucky, I hope to throw Mandrake
> for
> AMD64 on it. If anyone has SUSE 9.1 or Fedora 64 to play with, that
> could also
> be an option.
> 
> If I can, and there is some interest, I'&#314;l bring it to a Wellylug
> meeting
> for the technophiles to drool over :-)
> 
> I'm also be interested in some real-world benchmarks to throw at it.
> I'&#314;l
> try & get the ROMS meteorological benchmark tested on it, but if anyone
> has
> some real workstation type software & tasks we can throw at it, to get
> some
> documented comparisons, could you let me know?
> 
> I like to make the best of any opportunity to play with this to demo
> Linux & 64
> bit, as in that market, the competition from Microsoft is not very
> strong :-)
> 
> 
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