Fwd: Re: [AG-TECH] RE: AG Packaging Effort

Steven I. Gordon sgordon at osc.edu
Tue Apr 24 10:23:30 CDT 2001


There is a set of draft documentation that might answer your initial 
questions.  You can see that at http://www.osc.edu/accessgriddoc/


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>From: Randy Groves <randy.groves at boeing.com>
>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] RE: AG Packaging Effort
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>I would like to extend Gregor's request.  I've looked through the web site 
>extensively (but maybe not exhaustively), and do not see a list of 'specs' 
>for a lot of the support equipment such as video capture cards, 
>projectors, and sound cards.  There are suggestions of models that have 
>worked, but I do not see - at least collected in one place - a discussion 
>of what it was about the suggested model that made it a fit.  What specs 
>were essential on the suggested models?  Were they picked because drivers 
>existed for Linux?  What physical I/O connections are essential?  I find 
>that several of the suggestions are hard to get, and/or have been replaced 
>by newer models, and lacking the required specs, it makes it difficult to 
>determine if an available model will suffice.  I have read the Hardware 
>Spec document, and does contain good specs for the computing requirements, 
>but it is lacking on the other specs.
>
>I realize that there may be a bit of experimentation required in all this, 
>and I also realized that I may have missed the information somewhere on 
>the site.  So if someone can point out my ignorance that's fine by me.
>
>-randy
>
>At 09:14 AM 4/24/2001 -0500, Gregor von Laszewski wrote:
>>Dear All:
>>
>>         would it be possible to get a precise "small" list of features of a
>>mandatory Linux machine that is part of an access grid node. E.g. which os
>>version, ....,
>>
>>         Or is there a great deal of flexibility on these machines?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Gregor
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-accessgrid at mcs.anl.gov
>>[mailto:owner-accessgrid at mcs.anl.gov]On Behalf Of Lisa Childers
>>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:35 PM
>>To: Ag-Tech at Mcs. Anl. Gov; Accessgrid at Mcs. Anl. Gov




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