Dell PowerEdge M710 with Intel Xeon 5667 processor

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 06:27 -0800, Siavoush Dastmalchi wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I will appreciate it if I can get your expert opinion on doing
> parallel computation (I will use GROMACS and AMBER molecular mechanics
> packages and some other programs like CYANA and CNS to do structure
> calculations based on NMR experimental data) using a cluster based on
> Dell PowerEdge M710 with Intel  Xeon  5667 processor architecture
> which apparently each blade has two quad-core cpus. I was wondering if
> I can get some information about LINUX compatibility and parallel
> computation on this system.
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Your questions would probably be better answered at the Dell maintained
Linux PowerEdge mailing list...

https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge

but generally all the PowerEdge servers are intended to run Linux but
you should probably be careful with some of the RAID controllers because
some of them (notably the S100 & S300) are not true hardware RAID and
are not well supported by Linux software.

Also, it should be noted that Dell PowerEdge servers are tested for use
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (aka RHEL) and a distribution like Fedora
is not tested, though it usually works.

Craig



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