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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:53 am    Post subject: Deep Breath Now Grizz Reply with quote

Well , Umm Da-Grizz being a Moron of the FIRST order , he has recently acquired an Intel Server MoBo (S5500BC) , complete with 2 Intel E5405 2.0 Giggles Cpus and 4 Meg ( Rolling Eyes ) of suitable ram .
Now , as the afore mentioned MORON (see above) , this is a server MoBo , not a workstation , so - Win XP Pro do not fully utilize the abilities of this board .
I do NOT want to buy M$oft server (2003 , 2008 , etc) products , so any help on a suitable Linux build would be welcome Embarassed

Behind the parapet now .

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ubuntu...free and it will see all of the cores...go for the 64 bit version and use the package manager to install BOINC. It will help on the PG challenges that have the 64 bit advantage, as well as for ABC...

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EDIT: I personally like 8.12 or 8.04, but YMMV...
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't go with Ubuntu for a server. Debian won't have the most up to date packages, but provides a very stable and secure server. CentOS is also a very good choice, it's basically a free version of red hat. They would be my first two choices. If you don't need a gui interface you could examine a BSD option as well.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But if it isn't going to be used as a server, and only for crunching, Ubuntu is probably the easiest to set up, IMHO...
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also can't go far wrong with Zenwalk www.zenwalk.org either.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ubuntu does have issues with some projects though, like milky way. Although older versions may work better.

Never used zenwalk but it is based on slackware so it could be interesting.

Honestly, I think CentOS would be a good choice for this. It's basically a free red hat server. pretty solid.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd recommend Windows 7 (64 bit of course), anything but Starter and Home Basic will support 2 sockets and unlimited cores. And you can pick from what, 60 projects, instead of like 12. Twisted Evil

Edit: As for CentOS, the project admin (who maintains control over some fairly critical resources to the project) is AWOL so maybe not the best time to look into that one lol.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks sir Guys for yor input .

BUT the silly Limux system (s) (ALL Flavours /and/issuies/etc ) DOIN't wanna recognize my systems !! Rolling Eyes (AGAIN !!) .
Gonna stick to the one they gave me in 1982 , (Adjusted admitted ) , but still works for Me (no Mr Bill Microsoft@ass - not yours Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes )

Thanks anyhows'z am on the case .

Redgs Grizz -Da
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I looked up your board and it appears we are a bit behind making drivers for the on board raid giving errors with the hard drives. Is this the issue you had?
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