On Monday 09 July 2007 22:41:04 John R Pierce wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > Sorry to hijack this thread. I have got some old Sparc station 5's any > > one know of an o/s that I can install on them. I would like to learn all > > about clustering > > SS5 or Sun Ultra 5 ? > > the SS5 is way WAY old (discontinued in 1996), 70Mhz and used oddball > memory, 8 x 8MB (64MB total) or 8 x 32MB (256MB total maximum), and used > SBus peripherals, you'd be better off with pentium-II systems. > clusters generally need multiple network adapters at the very least. Yes exactly what I have, with massive 520Mb hard drives ;-) The architecture is completely new to me > > The Ultra 5 is somewhat newer, with a 270-400MHz ultrasparc IIi and > support for up to 512MB ram,, but was penalized (heavily!) by using a > programmed IO IDE channel controller (no DMA). It also requires > nonstandard RAM (EDO DRAM with ECC in a 168 pin jedec form factor), very > hard to find. > > > anyways, I think you'd have better luck trying to bring up a test > cluster using old x86 PCs. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I think I will get rid of them as I have some old 333mhz boards. thanks for the reply. I will hand back the thread now -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240