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  1. ASUS K7V Athlon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Athlon Motherboards And Chipsets Under Linux

    The machine:

    ASUS K7V, 800Mhz Athlon
    256MB PC133Mhz
    ASUS GeForce 6800 DDR
    Miro PCTV

    I recently bought this machine and installed Mandrake 7.0. It has been working for the past four days without a problem. The only problem is I'm trying to get the on-board sound card (using AC'97 compatible via82cxxx module) to work but without success (yet). The TV card using xawtv works with overlay using 2.3.99pre9 kernel.

    I have spent the last week searching for information on various items on hardware and linux information. An interesting sites about linux and the Athlon which I have just found (will be applying some of these advice tonight):

    http://apollo.ppm.u-psud.fr/athlon.html - Building a stable Athlon system...
    Documentation on via82cxxx patch-2.3.38

    Looking at the links on the first link, there is mention of optimisation flags that you can used to speed up some application for the Athlon under linux. Cool!

  2. Re:Not an issue by nels_tomlinson · · Score: 1 · on Export Controls on Beowulf?
    Obviously. And, as I pointed out above, the cheap old stuff in the classified ads works just fine. Restricting these clusters would be impossible. There is an interesting article out there about a fellow in Taiwan who put together a Beowolf for Academica Sinica. He is using it to replace some older SGI's. He said that one strong point of the beowolf idea is that he was no longer dependent on the US for parts. Saves lots of bucks, and sppeds things up immeasurably: no more waiting months for SGI parts to ship, clear customs, and so on.



    The point is, this whole idea seems trivial nonsense. That won't stop the government from trying, of course, if there is some sort of political gain in it.

  3. Some Athlon Benchmarks by Doo-da-man · · Score: 1 · on Intel Snags PC Mhz Crown Back From AMD

    I have an AMD Athlon 700, 192 MB PC100 RAM, and 13 GB Ultra ATA 7200 RPM drive. These results are from my workstation system running RedHat 6.1.

    Apache 1.3.9:
    less than 30 seconds (25-30 sec. on three different runs) to compile Apache 1.3.9 from source with DSO support the only configuration option.

    Tomcat 3.0
    42-47 seconds to build Tomcat 3.0 from source (three different runs for comparison). Compiler used was javac shipped with Blackdown 1.2.2rc3 JDK.

    2.2.13 kernel
    Just under 2min 30 sec. to compile with a pretty standard config for my system (no sound, no SCSI suport) on two runs.

    Here are some enlightening links on AMD Athlon performance and benchmarks:

    Note: none of the benchmarks I gave above used any custom compiler optimization settings.