dual mobo configuration?

[pchartwell]

Can anyone point me to a resource for DIY PC/server builds involving multiple motherboards... or even whether or why not it is even feasible? Specifically looking for insight into incorporating multiple (ie. 2) motherboards and not simply dual processors. TIA

 

[Guest]

Why would you want to do that?
You could go for either 2 smaller Case and/or a motherboard with twice the expansion.

Mor info please!

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[pchartwell]

disclaimer: It's not my idea or first choice!

I have a business aquaintance who tossed up the idea (of a dual mobo config) for my input. I confessed I had never heard of such a thing. He seemed to think that it would be worthwhile for dividing control for a very large array of hard disks as well as addressing his substantial power requirements.

Is there any application at all for dual mobo that could not more elegantly be handled in a more common fashion?

What do you mean my 'twice the expansion'... are you referring to multiple processors?

 

[ChipDeath]

A decent Server board would meet those needs. Depending on how many disks 'Very Large' is.

We got a dual processor server at work that has 6 SCSI disks and room for another 6 - bought off ebay for only about £400. (US$600-ish I guess)

He could look at something like that, but lots of high capacity SCSI disks would cost a bomb (the six we have are 18.2Gb each)

Any decent modern motherboard will run with quite a few disks with little or no performance hit anyway.....

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[Guest]

By twice the expansion I meant, twice the sata connector / ram slot/ PCI slots etc...So two way opteron board come with quitwe a few slots...

I dont think there's a need for it! Either you use two PC or you buy a server that can handle the "very large array of hard disks as well as addressing his substantial power requirements"

Some server can now hold a few TeraBytes, dont need 2 mobo..

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[Crashman]

You can get server boards that support 2-4 processors and 2-4 times as many memory modules.

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[czarousa]

Hi there!
You make up your mind if you want to go in for clustering or multiple processors on a board as crashman suggested todays multiple processor mobos can handle large amounts of ram and io's
go to http://www.tyan.com/
for further info.

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