It's been a semi-interesting year for me so far. Had the opportunity to ramp up my folding for a short time, and load test a few servers.
First up I have a pair of IBM 7870 Blades with 48 (and 40) GB of Ram and a pair of L5520's in each. I have configured them per Musky's ubuntu Linux with 10.04.4LT release. I put one to normal SMP, and the other, I tried a BigAdv (SMP 16 flag). It wasn't able to handle an 8101 within the proper timing, so I switched it to standard SMP as well. Both are hitting 28-30k ppd. Any chance these processors can handle BigAdv or BigBeta these days, or should I just let them have a cpl weeks of standard SMP? Can't OC them due to the infrastructure of the IBM blades.
I also have a pair of Cisco UCS Servers with Dual Hex 1.8Ghz Xeons that are happily chewing through Big Adv @ 120kppd. I'm going to be sad when I have to remove them from load testing, but might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
First up I have a pair of IBM 7870 Blades with 48 (and 40) GB of Ram and a pair of L5520's in each. I have configured them per Musky's ubuntu Linux with 10.04.4LT release. I put one to normal SMP, and the other, I tried a BigAdv (SMP 16 flag). It wasn't able to handle an 8101 within the proper timing, so I switched it to standard SMP as well. Both are hitting 28-30k ppd. Any chance these processors can handle BigAdv or BigBeta these days, or should I just let them have a cpl weeks of standard SMP? Can't OC them due to the infrastructure of the IBM blades.
I also have a pair of Cisco UCS Servers with Dual Hex 1.8Ghz Xeons that are happily chewing through Big Adv @ 120kppd. I'm going to be sad when I have to remove them from load testing, but might as well enjoy it while it lasts.