[Cialug] Sun + Linux

[Lee]

Actually I do plan to run Solaris on this server for it's intended 
purpose. However as it is not a production machine, I first wanted to 
get some experience putting together a HPC Linux environment. And this 
is the only hardware I have access to for such a task.

John.Lengeling at radisys.com wrote:

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> Okay, I will ask a stupid question....Why not just run Solaris?  It 
> runs 100% without problems.
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> Aaron Porter wrote:
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> > On 2/14/06, *Nathan C. Smith* <smith at ipmvs.com
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> >     I don't have any personal experience with it, but I know somebody
> >     who is
> >     running it on a 4-way opteron machine.  He's ga-ga over Sun so I
> >     don't know
> >     if his opinion would count though.
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> > Linux on Sun Opterons is pretty straight forward. Though if you're
> > looking at the v20z or the v40z a few googles for Newisys will turn up
> > the same hardware at substantially lower prices. What I'd be more
> > interested in is Linux on some of the SMP Sparc boxes. We've done some
> > Debian on Blade 100 and Blade 150 boxes with pretty miserable results.
> > Shame. I ran RedHat on an Sparc IPX for way too many years.
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> Which is along the lines of what I had in mind. I'm looking at running a
> 8 way Enterprise 3500. It appears that people have used Debian for these
> with good results. I'm just looking for a personal perspective.
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