Monthly Archives: April 2008

IB network design leaf and core switch trade-off

Posted on April 27, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

Current IB switch based on Mellanox IS III 24 port 4x chipset support upto 288 in 3 stages and 3456 in 5 stages. Recently Sun has build in leaf switch in the Blade 6048 rack. If one use 3stages IB … Continue reading →

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mellanox InfiniScale IV architecture

Posted on April 27, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

Mellanox announced InfiniScale IV architecture in sc2007 the benefits are: 40Gb/s server and storage interconnect (4x QDR) 120Gb/s switch-to-switch interconnect (12x QDR) 60 nanosecond switch hop latency 36-port switch devices for optimal scalability Adaptive Routing to optimize data traffic flow … Continue reading →

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Solaris Operating system Life Cycle

Posted on April 17, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

This import link describe the solaris OS life Cycle Sun’s Life Cycle Model for the Solaris Operating System Please note that market conditions and requirements can cause the exact date of the transition to vary Key day to remember: Solaris … Continue reading →

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x2200M2 QC U.S. Education Essentials Matching Grant

Posted on April 16, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

This year MG has very aggressive 60% discount on most products The following x2200 M2 QC is particular interesting for HPC customer A85-FFZ2-H-8GB-JL8 Sun Fire X2200 M2 x64 Server: 2x Quad Core AMD Opteron Model 2354 processors (2.2GHz/95W, B3), 4x … Continue reading →

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change hostid

Posted on April 16, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

Recently a customer request some way to migrate from older Sun server and solaris to newer server and Solaris but with one condition: need to preserve the hostid so the license server can use the license file with old hostid. … Continue reading →

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s9 containers

Posted on April 16, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

Sun just announce Solaris 9 containers with Solaris 10 Now Solaris 10 BrandZ support: Redhat 3 32-bit Containers Solaris 8 Containers Solaris 9 Containers Key components for Solaris 9 Containers p2v conversion tool Solaris 9 Container environment Enterprise level support … Continue reading →

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s10u5 new features

Posted on April 16, 2008 by laotsao 老曹

Capping CPU resource usage Support for Enhanced Intel SpeedStep and AMD PowerNow power management technology. Virtual Network Computing (VNC) now included with Solaris Infiniband flash update tool Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) IP addressing ability for IBTF interfaces SAS multipathing support … Continue reading →

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