On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 22:24 +0300, alex stone wrote: You mean one quadcore processor or 4 quad core processors? We have one Supermicro H8QM3 with 4 quad core opteron 8356 processors (16 cores in all!). Mostly for multi-threading and sound server experimental stuff. Works fine so far but it is in the server room (very noisy! :-) On this particular mobo I've had problems with newer kernels (won't boot correctly) that I have not debugged - I just keep using an older one. The performance depends on the software. Very little stuff out there is properly multithreaded and can use more than one core. AFAIK pd, supercollider, chuck, etc, etc, use only one core. CLM in its newer S7 Scheme incarnation does use multiple cores and Bill has reported very good speedups in non-realtime synthesis. Faust can also generate multithreaded code that scales very well. Stuff like mpeg encoders also have parameters to enable more than one thread of execution. -- Fernando

alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com> writes: I have a dual socket quad core opteron system from Tyan. I run an extensive amount of JACK stuff with JACK-2, but I have not played with its multiprocessor capability, yet. Ardours' multiprocessor code for plugins is still a work in progress and I don't think any other plugin hosts, like Ingen, does multiprocessing, yet, sadly. http://irc.esben-stien.name/mediawiki/index.php/Computer_Silence I've also started to work a little with video, but I have little experience here. I've made a few videos using cinelerra, but not done any real 1080p editing. My friend just bought an 8 socket Opteron system with a shitload of memory, from Tyan, but it's not assembled, yet;). Well, you need to be a little more specific, like what you want to know. I've had no problems with anything not working. I haven't played with lmsensors, yet, but I pretty much know it's working. I run my own distro. -- Esben Stien is b0ef@e s a http://www. s t n m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact sip:b0ef@ e e jid:b0ef@ n n