Hi all

Am just setting up a new amd64 dual opteron server for high-performance
number crunching and data storage. Key requirements are:

- floating point performance on multi-threaded codes with significant
but not huge memory footprint
- large amounts of long-term safe data storage
- high electrical efficiency & low noise/heat output
- tower case of modest physical size
- reasonable cost

Disk speed performance is not a big issue. Have assembled components
that I believe will satisfy all this:

- 2x Opteron 2354 (good compromise between power & SPEC fp_rate2006/OMP2001)
- tyan thunder 2927-E mobo (only ATX board I know of for dual opty)
- enermax 82+ psu (apparently both very quiet & very high efficiency)
- 2x WD RE-2 greenpower 750G hard disks (ditto + long warranty)
- 4x 2G ddr2 667 ECC (kingston 3.2w per stick)
- large passive heatpipe CPU heatsinks & Noctua case fan
- Antec solo ATX case (nice build & noise reduction features)

Probably more detail than needed but better more than less I guess.