Sivakumar Raju sivakumar.raju@gmail.com wrote:
I have a HP DL 585 server with Quad Opteron processors and 32 Gbytes of RAM. I would like to know whether CentOS 3.5 x86_64 will recognize all 4 CPUs and 32 Gbytes of RAM.
I had almost the exact same configuration on a couple of servers months ago. In fact, these systems are a major mainstay of RHEL deployments. I ran RHEL3 U3 and U4 fine on them, detected everything out-of-the-box. Even Fedora Core 3 did too.
CentOS kernels should be a 1:1 rebuild of RHEL, so you should see all hardware supported.
I will also running EDA tools like PriteTime, and Magma on this server.
Nice. It's been years since I've had to support leading edge EDA tools (I left the semiconductor industry over 3 years ago).
Does CentOS has any issues with these tools?
If they are certified against RHEL3, then they should not.
But I have to say I have never run CentOS on my former DL585 systems, just RHEL3 (and FC a few times).