We always write it into the tender, or request from the supplier that it
must work with SL4 out of the box without any custom drivers or kernel
modules.
We are using supermicro based systems from Viglen with Intel quad core
CPUs.
Cheers Pete
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-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Santanu Das
Sent: 16 July 2008 14:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Commodity service nodes
Hi Henry,
We have rought ly 40 quad-core PE-1950s and all are running 64-bit SL4.5
without any problem. I always do kick-start installation, so can't think
of any reason why conventional CD-installation would be a problem. SATA
and NIC controller support were pretty much out of the box. The most
recent ones we bought about 2 months ago. I don't have the hardware
detain handy at the moment but I dig that out for you you ike.
Cheers,
Santanu
> 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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