We have had stuff from DNUK recently that works off-the-shelf. The Tape
robot folk have had stuff from Transtec but that's usually via specified
quote.
And I've found that Viglen, Streamline and Clustervison et al have been
quite helpful if you ask for a quote for a vaguely (compared to formal
T1 tenders) specified box and tell them it needs to run RHEL/SL OotB.
As far as I know all Viglen HPC-badged nodes are RHEL compatible (but
don't take my word for it, ask them!).
Martin.
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Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Team
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Henry Nebrensky
> Sent: 16 July 2008 13:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Commodity service nodes
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Santanu Das wrote:
>
> > Henry Nebrensky wrote:
> > > Has anybody bought similar off-the-shelf servers and had
> success getting
> > > SL4 to work?
> >
> > I always preferred Dell PE-1950s and that's what we probably gonna
> > order for all our head nodes. We are already using a
> quad-core Intel /
> > 8Gig [memory] PE-1950 for our SE [X86_64 SL4.5] for a while
> now and I'm
> > pretty happy with it.
>
> Does that support SL4 in a just shove-the-CD-in and install
> fashion, or
> did you need to mess about compiling kernel modules beforehand?
>
> To clarify my question a bit, I've found it difficult on some sites
> (Dell/Viglen/HP) to work out which network card and SATA
> controller they
> use in their machines, to check for SL support.
>
> Is a basic SATA controller now part of "the chipset"?
>
> Thanks
>
> Henry
>
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