Stable Opteron configurations with 16GB or more

[Jens Andre Griepentrog]

>  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:56:18 +0200
>  Martin Nilsson <martin at mullet.se> wrote:
>
>  Jens Andre Griepentrog wrote:
>  > Dear FreeBSD AMD64 Community,
>  > 
>  > I would like to get an Opteron compute server with a large amount
>  > of memory appropriate for three-dimensional numerical simulations.
>  > 
>  > I have got some offer for a system with a Tyan S2882-D or S2892 board
>  > with two Opterons 248HE, U320 SCSI disks, and 16GB memory. But after
>  > tweaking out more information the same dealer concedes severe BIOS
>  > problems with the 90nm Opteron version connected to more than 2GB
>  > of memory! So one can feel a little bit irritated having in mind
>  > that all 248HE Opterons are manufactured in 90nm process ... 
>  
>  We are currently trying to get a system with Tyan K8WE (S2895), 
>  2*Opteron 252, 8*2GB memory and MegaRAID 320-2e card with 10*15k disks 
>  to work properly. The customer is using Linux for FEM simulations and we 
>  have problems with both the memory and the MegaRAID together with the 
>  Tyan motherboard. At this point I can't recomend Tyan at all :-(
>  
>  > It would be nice to hear from experienced BSD users which combinations
>  > of Opteron mainboards and processors work stable with 16GB or more of
>  > installed memory.
>  
>  Sorry, I don't have one that works, we are trying to replace the memory 
>  with another brand to get it to work. We will test the new Supermicro 
>  H8DCE boards if they arrives here before we have solved the problems 
>  with the Tyan board.
>  

Thank you for that information, Martin. Do you have some experience
with Supermicro H8D** boards and 16GB or more of installed memory? 

Best regards,
Jens A. Griepentrog