Steve Rigler wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:16 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote:
BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix?
We have two Altix machines (256p BX2 and 24p 3700) that are still stuck on SGI PP3 because we're hesitant to go to SuSE. I recall SGI saying that RHEL 4 (and thus CentOS 4) should work but that RedHat has a "hangup" on supporting anything with more than 16 CPU's.
We have a "test" 8p Altix 350 that, if I can find some time, I might try to install CentOS on it.
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ProPack 5 has support for RHEL 5, thus why I would prefer to wait for CentOS 5. I'm in a holding pattern on my migration until then since PP4 is not *officially* supported on RHEL 4.
Currently my machines ( 64p x 64g 3700 & 32p x 32g prism) are running RHEL AS 3 PP3SP6 and SLES 10 PP4SP3. CentOS 5 and ProPack 5 offers my users a great deal in terms of support and features. I get regular updates, much newer software and "supported" (not from SGI) ProPack 5.
BTW: I tried booting on my 3700 it booted the kernel to a point where it identified the serial number and machine configuration details but didn't seem to go any further. I only messed with it for about 20 mins during a downtime period so it was far from comprehensive testing. Hopefully, when the loaner Altix 450 arrives I can work out some of the bugs.