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. > > -Steve > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-291-3610 Fax : 604-291-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com