gige benchmark performance

[Luc Renambot]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-admin at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-admin at beowulf.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Hartner
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 04:41
> To: Mark Hahn
> Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: gige benchmark performance
> 
> 
> We found the 860 chipset did quite well. We also ran tests on an Athlon
> system (Tyan S2460), but I was never able to get the graphics stable on
> that system.
> 
> 

I noticed that you used rather old Nvidia driver (1251 Rev).
The latest versions are very fast and stable now on AMD CPU,
combined with the kernel option "mem=nopentium" set up
int lilo.conf or grub.conf.  

Luc.
renambot at cs.vu.nl