 | | | increase in CPU limit for RHEL WS product? | increase in CPU limit for RHEL WS product? 2004-05-07 - By Tom Georgoulias
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In the not too distant future, I expect that I will have a need to add
systems with 4 CPUs to my compute farm. All of the systems in this farm
run EDA (chip design) simulations and are basically big CAD equivalent
workstations, most of which are 2CPU x 8GB and use RHEL WS. However, as
memory requirements for our simulations increase I know that we will be
getting some Linux based compute farm systems that go beyond 8GB and
into 16 or 32 GB,and if those systems are Opteron based, they will
require 4 CPUs just to provide memory controllers that can address all
of the RAM. A move to add a 4x32 system is going to require useage of
RHEL AS, which is far more expensive AND support level overkill for what
we need. What would be nice is an option for a supported 4 CPU version
of RHEL WS for the CAD/beowulf/compute farm systems.
Has there been any discussion of this kind of product within Red Hat?
Tom
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