[Beowulf] Re: Purdue Supercomputer

Lombard, David N dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Tue May 13 07:59:54 PDT 2008


On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:53:12PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca> writes:
> > I find that with IPMI and console redirection, it's very rarely necessary to
> > care about where your nodes are, at least from a sysadmin perspective.
> 
> Speaking of IPMI, are there reasonable motherboards that incorporate
> it right into the design at this point, or is it still mostly an add
> on?

Well, clearly the answer is It Depends.  But, Intel's server boards
usually do, e.g., S5000XAL, S5000PAL, et al.

-- 
David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.



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