The ServerWorks chipset is quite a beast, also, providing the kind of bandwidth that you would see on a Sun box. All in all, it provides 800MB/sec of aggregate PCI bus bandwidth. Intel is pretty impressed with it, too. It provides a higher throughput, and lower latency, than any Intel chipset (RDRAM, SDRAM, single or dual channel). Even Intel is adopting it in a future 4-way CPU/memory configuration. (ala Profusion) In addition, monitoring chips on the motherboard can provide info about: All CPU temps System temps Chassis intrusion 4 voltage input monitors 4 fan-speed monitors (I don't know if the OS can see that, tho) Also, the reason why I'm not clustering is this: It costs $195 per machine for colocation - saving $500 by clustering two smaller machines would be gobbled up quite quickly by colocation costs. :( Nick Reinking -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org