Lamar Owen wrote:
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:15, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
This is inspiring me to save up for a loaded Sun E420R or E450 to run at home and replace my Duron-based web/mail server.
Whats your power bill like? :-D
But seriously now. I'd like to try it just for the geek factor somewhere - is there a supported hardware list somewhere? How about US-III based hardware?
The beta doesn't support ESP controllers at this point, so E[3456][05]00 are out for now; I tried doing an HD install, but Anaconda threw a signal 11 (on hardware that is working fine under Aurora 2.0) before getting very far. As the CD is on the ESP, makes it a little difficult.
E10K and similar don't have Linux support.
Not sure about kernel support for US 3; I don't have anything newer than US II 400's here yet.
I installed it on an E450, but I think the E450 has some issues, as it didn't run long. Not sure if prelinking is turned on; prelinking needs to be set to default to OFF at least on Aurora 2.0 at this point, and I would think the same would apply for CentOS 4.2 SPARC unless Pasi has fixed the prelink problem.
Hardware available here for testing: E6500 (Im' actually loading it down with the 400MHz 4MB ecache CPU's; they'll only run at 360MHz on the 6500, but I have enough CPU's and boards to load it down to 26 CPU's for testing, albeit running at 336MHz due to the particular CPU/memory cards I have)(qlogic PTI to a D1000) E5500 (qlogic PTI to a D1000) E3500 (ESP hard disk there) E450 U30 U10 U5
While I have an E6000, not sure I'm going to power it up, as if I load the 6500 down with 26CPU's there won't be enough cards to populate more than 4 or 6 CPU's in the E6000, and the drive arrays on it are old and wierd.
Just had to interject here... boy, that would be some piece of hardware to run the WRF or MM5 model on :-) Even at slower clock speeds, with an MPI or DM setup, that would be a screamer!
Sam