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 -- Snowman