Lamar Owen wrote:
On 04/14/2014 08:02 AM, mark wrote:
We've got servers that are 5+ years old, including a once-supercomputer from SGI that's from, I think, '03. And if *anyone* thinks we need to get rid of it, they can contact me offlist, to arrange, from their pocket, a donation to the civilian sector of the US federal gov't.....
Heh, SGI Altix..... Got two, formerly used for weather modelling. I have successfully rebuilt up to CentOS 5.9 (I haven't been able to
*ping*
SGI Altix 3000 here. There was some reason - support, I believe, from SGI, that it's running SuSE 10. And the main users have collaborators around the world, some of whom are on *older* systems due to budget or export regs. But it's still test run occasionally to model protein folding.... (But I didn't say where I work, since I don't speak for the Institutes, the agency, nor my employer (a federal contractor)....
justify the work yet to get to 5.10, but over the summer perhaps) on our 30-CPU SGI Altix 350 system, and it's running on a small 4 CPU Altix 3700 (we have another 3700 with 20 CPU's, but it has a hardware issue somewhere). RH support IA-64 in RHEL 5, so if you have an RH contract you can run straight RHEL5 on it.
My newest servers are by most standards fairly old these days; a pair of Dell PE 6950's and a scattering of PE 1950's. But they're solid, and they do the job.
Oh. START THE PROCESS to budget for replacements of the PE 1950's. Start it last week. We replaced all ours a couple of years ago - inside of a month, we had something like 4? 6? of them have the RAID daughterboard croak (talk about quality control!), and they're years out of support, anyway. R410 or R610's'll do you.
mark