[wellylug] Iwill SFF Dual Opteron demo ??

[Glen Ogilvie]

I;ve been considering getting one, so would be keen to have a look at it, and 
see how it performs compared to a single processor 64 bit shuttle?

I'd like to see it at a welly lug meeting.

Cheers
Glen Ogilvie

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:30, Wood Brent wrote:
> 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'ĺl 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'ĺl 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 :-)