Motherboards

[Garrett Cooper]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:

> On 4/23/06, Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Pantyukhin writes:
>>
>>> Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan.
>>
>> Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was  
>> mentioning
>> that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons.
>>
>> Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this?
>
> Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers
> almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro.

Google also back in the day took a bunch of bad donated RAM chips and  
put them to use using a special parity checking algorithm. The point  
is that Google doesn't always buy the absolute best hardware--they  
like many businesses put cost first.
-Garrett