Motherboards for High Performance Computing

Overview

A vast number of differences in motherboard specifications make for an interesting selection process when designing a HPC cluster solution. Considering that many vendors (re)use the same chipsets in different motherboard models, how do you decide what to go for?

Simple. Leave it to the experts (that's us). We have put together a decent selection of motherboards from three of the top vendors that market their products to the HPC clustering arena.

• Iwill
• Tyan
• Supermicro

Selection of each of these boards has been based on their suitability for cluster computing applications. Common themes include embedded support for Gigabit Ethernet, high memory scalability and high speed I/O expansion options. For the ultimate in high-bandwidth I/O applications, some of the boards support PCI-Express and Hypertransport expansion.

Some of these boards even feature in our standard server products for general purpose enterprise deployments for file & print, database and ERP. These are high quality, tried and tested solutions that will bring out the best possible performance in your applications.