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

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Apr 24 11:09:15 CDT 2001


If you send your proposed machine specs to the list, there will be folks 
around that can peer at them and see if there are any obvious problems. (Me 
for one :-)

--bob

At 05:06 PM 4/24/2001 +0100, Mike Daw wrote:
>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
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>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of the suggestions are hard to get, and/or have been replaced by newer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
> >Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:35 PM
> >To: Ag-Tech at Mcs. Anl. Gov; Accessgrid at Mcs. Anl. Gov
>
>




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