SGI® Octane™ III OC3-10TY9

SGI® Octane™ III OC3-10TY9
Network Server
IBM

14 Oct 2009
130453

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
SGI® Octane III OC3-10TY9 takes high performance computing out of the data center and puts it at the deskside. It combines the immense power and performance capabilities of a high-performance cluster with the portability and usability of a workstation to enable a new era of personal innovation in strategic science, research, development and visualization. Octane III accelerates time-to-results for over 50 HPC applications and supports the Intel® processor to capitalize on high levels of performance, flexibility and scalability. Pre-configured with system software.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Pedestal
Mother Board Revision:	1.02
BIOS/uEFI:	AMI 080015 03/11/2009
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 Serial 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JDO (ICH10) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 ST3750330NS , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Install: PXE boot and network install requires the "?device=eth0" to be added to the install server boot process.
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.
KVM Guests: The SLES 10 SP4 guest(s) were configured with a virtual e1000 NIC.
KVM Guests: Current kernel maintenance updates were installed on the SLES 11 SP1 KVM guests in order to provide updated virtio drivers.

Referenced Bulletins
137658

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 23984
	Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 185777
	Checksum: a0de58bdf91ec9168bc8c03039bb8c86

Intel Integrated 82801JDO (ICH10)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 62472
	Checksum: 97c052c6639708435bc852ccf3a945b1

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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
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