Status

• Mainboards, chipsets

  • Too many to list, quite a few vendors, but not guaranteed that yours will work
  • Many are marked as ג€œunstableג€
  • Better chance with Intel than with others

• Architectures

  • Alpha, K8, K7, PowerPC, P4, PIII, PII, Cyrix (VIA), Geode (now AMD) and SC520 (AMD).
  • PPC (some: Motorola Sandpoint is reported as working, IBM 970 port in progress)

• OS

  • Linux (but of course)
  • OpenBSD
  • Win2K (LILO and GRUB support with the help of BOCHS)

• Deployment

  • the biggest, baddest, fastest clusters built by LinuxNetworx for LANL
  • Pentium and K8