[CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

[Lamar Owen]

On 04/14/2014 08:02 AM, mark wrote:
> We've got servers that are 5+ years old, including a 
> once-supercomputer from SGI that's from, I think, '03. And if *anyone* 
> thinks we need to get rid of it, they can contact me offlist, to 
> arrange, from their pocket, a donation to the civilian sector of the 
> US federal gov't..... 
Heh, SGI Altix..... Got two, formerly used for weather modelling.  I 
have successfully rebuilt up to CentOS 5.9 (I haven't been able to 
justify the work yet to get to 5.10, but over the summer perhaps) on our 
30-CPU SGI Altix 350 system, and it's running on a small 4 CPU Altix 
3700 (we have another 3700 with 20 CPU's, but it has a hardware issue 
somewhere).  RH support IA-64 in RHEL 5, so if you have an RH contract 
you can run straight RHEL5 on it.

My newest servers are by most standards fairly old these days; a pair of 
Dell PE 6950's and a scattering of PE 1950's.  But they're solid, and 
they do the job.