Some colleagues of mine have a dual MP box (RH7.2 or 3 I believe). I have not heard them complain about problems etc. The intent of that machine was for heavy number crunching as well - commercial computational fluid dynamic codes. As I posted previously, I have an AMD XP 2100+ system for number crunching. I need to finish running a heavy numerical job to really know if I am getting the speed up that I thought I should get. I sometimes check the SpecFP type numbers for specific hardware to see what a particular platform might produce. I have the new Athlon kernel up and running (there is a good chance I had the 686 kernel before - if that makes sense) ... once I finish this analysis (15-20 hrs) I will report back as to what I thought about the performance on AMD versus an dual older PIII 700 MHz. Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Athlon MP > I'm building an uber-number crunching box for a guy. He wants the best in > everything, so naturaly I recomended an Athlon MP machine. he had a few > choice words to say about the dual MPs, and wanted a single Athlon > instead. He wouldn't tell me WHY, other than "I've heard things". > > Is Athlon MP a good choice? Are there weird issues under various > OS's? (this box will be running dual Win2K/Linux). > > -Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >