What are electrolytic caps doing on this board?

Hello!! Supermicro!!! We are in 2009!!!

I got boxes like that, Supermicros with 12 and 16 disks in IIRC 2 and 3 U cases. They work fine.

Bahaaaa... Haaa... Haaa... 12 HDD's in the front cooling 8 50W or greater... The physics of air flow or the lack thereof is astounding. How could anyone be so stupid as to put 12 HDD's in a 2U ? Forget about 400W of just processor plus HDD's plus Motherboard... So were talking about a 750-1Kw System ? Give us a break. I think someone else tried this and it didn't work. Pahlease....

Some stuff only gets deeper...

I gotta agree with Federal, there is more to an 8 way server.
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As a cluster element it seems to me this machine justs holds 4 computers hostage to one power supply. There is nothing wrong with clusters of course.
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An 8 processors NUMA machine, common address space, would be more exciting to me and my collection of boffins.

There is more to an 8-way server than putting 4 2-way servers in a chassis.

Nehalem's have been shipping for quite a while, now, when will they get the bugs out of Quickpath and ship a multiprocessor server?

Quickpath looks great, in that the spec uses fewer motherboard traces than Hypertransport, but it's looking like they got a little too aggressive on making the spec cheap to produce.