What would be the best way to set this up?

1. MPE-FT32 File Server Case: Supports 2 full size 12 slot Motherboards. Baby AT, full size AT, 12 slots, ATX, Intel Xpress, HP Netserver LM Model. Holds 32 5.25" drives, I plan on taking those out and putting in 3.5" drive bays, and it has 8 slots for power supplies(4 For each motherboard). Dual Hot Swappable 300/400W AT/ATX Redundant Power Supplies. Both power supplies share the load at 150/200W each but if one goes down, the other picks up the load at its full power of 300/400W. And if you wanted to know it is 26.4"Width x 20.3"Depth x 34.1" Height and weighs 164 pounds with the power supply.

I want to use 2 Tyan Thunder K8QS - S4880 Quad-Opteron Motherboards with 8 Dual-Core Opteron 275 Italy 1GHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache Socket 940 Processors.

My question to you wisened individuals is how would I set this up so that the processors work in unison?

Holy crap!!! Quite honestly, I have never dealt with quad procs let alone using 2 mobo's in one case. What in the hell are you using this for?

lol that would be quite funny although i'd suggest you are prepared to spend abit of cash and able to make them fit nicely

Or you'll end up like me, over clocking computers to the max lol. but i tryed doing it on purpose hehe

http://www.lomcn.co.uk/forum/attachment ... entid=5909

I'm a serious multitasker. I usually design websites, graphics, animations, and a little rendering so yea the more power i have the better.

and yes I know it'll be like $10K just for the processors(yes I intend to use . But who cares right, not AMD lol.

woW!

u should host a gaming server or something...

Wow nice do you have a picture of the case?

Here is the link to the stats for the case.
http://baber.com/baber/products/mpe_ft32.htm

This is the motherboard i'm going to be using.
http://www.amdboard.com/tyan_s4880_opteron_board.html

And This is the Processor i'm going to be using.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103551

I would host a game server if I actually played computer games. I've only played the first Doom on the PC and that's it, but i'm looking to play Elder Scrolls 4 when it comes out.

This thing is gonna be a monster!!!

I was thinking about this and talking with a friend about it. Your main problem is going to be the OS. Your average operating system won't recognize 8 procs unless you go with a Server edition. Windows 2003 Eneterprise and Datacenter edition support 8-way SMP, not sure if any Linux distros will use it.

Another thing is software compatibility. The average program won't be able to utilize 8 procs either. You will have some issues.

The friend I was talking to is a programmer and thinks this idea is nuts. He knows more about how programs work and he says this is all a waste of money. However, I do like the idea but not very practical.

The only thing I could think of is using processor affinity. You basically tell your programs which processor to use. I can't remember where you set this at but that is probably the only way you are going to get your money's worth out of the hardware. I wish you luck.

What if I use 4 of the processors as main processors and use the other ones in a sort of cluster.

Linux will. But at that point I would go FreeBSD. You can do what's called a beowulf cluster.