SGI® Octane™ III OC3-2TY11

SGI® Octane™ III OC3-2TY11
Workstation
IBM

29 Oct 2009
130582

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
SGI® Octane™ III OC3-2TY11 graphics workstation capitalizes on advanced graphics capabilities. Conceived, designed and built by SGI on the shoulders of its workstations from the past, Octane III is available as a single-node dual-socket graphics workstation with support for fast graphics and GP-GPU cards to take high-performance graphics into the 21st century. Octane III is optimized for use with multiple display solutions for expanded advanced visual computing scenarios.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Pedestal
Mother Board Revision:	1.01
BIOS/uEFI:	AMI V1.0a 09/16/2009
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5560 2.80 GHz
RAM:	72 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 Serial 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP , Serial SCSI (SAS) JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST3146854SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic UJ-850S , IDE
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.27

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Emulex Integrated BE3 Gigabit Ethernet adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Referenced Bulletins
139151

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 195712
	Checksum: aa323e9b7243810830f170a73c0337cf

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 116120
	Checksum: 384f7df9f6046f20813724fd8b777e72

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 52504
	Checksum: 759f46f9d1e9f6f78cd97907efc0ff27

JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: pata_jmicron.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 8256
	Checksum: 818cf3336035243c6ef4197020fcbae1

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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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SGI® Octane III OC3-2TY11 - Yes Bulletin 130582 | SUSE