High Performance Computing (SMP/RAID): where to get the latest information?

["Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46@vlsm.org>]

Hello;

I would like to hear/ listen about recent experience on
running a high performance system (for a heavy duty database).

1. Is SMP mature enough in sense of "Mean Time Before Crash" :-)? 
   Or, is a single CPU still saver?
2. Which RAID/SCSI controllers are considered the most stable
   ones (it does not have to be the most state of the art)?

I have read these following RTFW(WW):
- http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html
- http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
- http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/
Does anyone know more detail information?

thank you,

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Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org
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