On Tue, 02 May 2006 15:26:34 -0400, Kenn Yuill wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>Here is an item from itbusiness.ca on Supermicro's servers, which may be 
>of interest to some users of AMD processors.
>
>Supermicro offers A+ Server Solutions
>Supermicro Computer Inc. offers a full line of A+ server solutions that 
>support the latest dual-core AMD Opteron processors. Several Supermicro 
>A+ Servers, including the 4020A-8R, 2020A-8R, 1020P-TR/8R and 1010S-T 
>completed AMD's qualification process and are now designated as AMD 
>Validated Servers.
>
>One of the company's Validated Server platforms is the 1020P-8R, which 
>features 700 watts of redundant power and supports two dual-core Opteron 
>200 series processors, a 1GHz HyperTransport link, two universal 
>(PCI-Express x8 or PCI-X) expansion slots, dual-port Gigabit Ethernet 
>and four U320 SCSI hot-swap drive bays with SAF-TE. The system, which 
>comes standard with a DVD-ROM and floppy drive, also supports 
>zero-channel RAID and IPMI 2.0 with a third LAN option for server 
>management capabilities.

I've recently delivered a 1020P-RT (dual Opteron with SATA RAID-5) to a
client... impressive little beasts - like the Tyan B2881, but includes
a floppy drive and redundant hot-swap power.

The onboard SATA controller is a ServerWorks HT1000 and does NOT take
well to newer SATA-300 hard drives, so if you go building one of these,
I *highly* recommend you locate a supply of older SATA-150 drives, like
I had to do.

Video is the usual ATI RAGE XL chipset, but sadly, I didn't get a
chance to try it out for eCS compatibility with the rest of the
components - it's already installed at a co-location facility and
acting as a database server for a company in Japan.

Hopefully, I won't be so time-crunched next time (since I won't have
all the hardware compatibility issues with the hard drives to resolve!)
and will get a chance to take it for a spin.  I'll be sure to post the
results (and benchmarks).

Note that the system does NOT come with heat sinks for the Opteron
CPU's... at least, I didn't find any in the box!


If you're looking on SuperMicro's site for these - you won't find them
off the main page... so as not to poke the sleeping Intel bear, they're
only available if you know where to go:

http://www.supermicro.com/aplus

Hope this helps.

-Derek


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