[AG-TECH] RE: AG Packaging Effort (fwd)

[Mike Daw]

We here in Manchester were thinking just the same thing as Randy, but were
hoping to go one further and get some helpful person to look over our
suggested hardware spec before we make any purchases. Our budget doesn't allow
for any experimentation!

Is anyone out there qualified (and willing!) to help in this way?

Mike Daw
CSAR
University of Manchester
+44 161 275 7026

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:13:18 -0700
From: Randy Groves <randy.groves at boeing.com>
To: "Ag-Tech at Mcs. Anl. Gov" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] RE: AG Packaging Effort

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of the suggestions are hard to get, and/or have been replaced by newer 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
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>To: Ag-Tech at Mcs. Anl. Gov; Accessgrid at Mcs. Anl. Gov