( ESNUG 373 Item 3 ) -------------------------------------------- [06/07/01]
Subject: ( ESNUG 372 #2 ) Processors, Motherboards, Version Of Linux We Use
> We're _exclusively_ a Sun (1000's of 'em) house, a decree from on high,
> because [ reason deleted to preserve anonymity]. Moving to Linux/PC
> hardware is a very hot political potato at this company. I don't want
> to attract any heat. Just looking for some information.
>
> I hope you can understand my position and keep me anonymous.
>
> I'm interested in what Linux hardware people are running:
>
> 1.) Which Processors, motherboards, amount of memory, are you using?
> 2.) Which flavor of Linux are they running?
> 3.) Single/multi-processor boxes?
>
> Can you organise a poll, John?
>
> - [ Chicken Little ]
From: Dan Moritz <dmoritz@lsil.com>
John,
We're using Dell PowerEdge Dual P3-800 running Redhat 6.1 and IBM Thinkpad
T20 Single P3-700 running Redhat 7.1.
- Dan Moritz
LSI Logic Bloomington, MN
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From: Tony Laundrie <atl@sgi.com>
John,
Our Physical Design group is using a collection of about a dozen SGI 1200
systems, 2 CPU, 700 MHz, 512-1536 MBytes RAM each, mostly running PhysOpt
jobs. Red Hat Linux release 6.2. Great performers over our Sun machines.
Some people also have Linux workstations on their desktop, running Cadence
DFII on a remote Sun and displaying back. We are anxiously awaiting
Cadence support for 24-bit graphics display to Linux machines (coming in
a few months). In the mean time, we use 8-bit mode for VNC or X to run
Cadence DFII.
- Tony Laundrie
SGI
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From: Kris Monsen <monsen@mobilygen.com>
Hi, John,
Other than a couple of Sun's for tools that don't yet run under Linux, all
of our engineering team use:
RedHat Linux 6.2
ASUS P3V4X Motherboard
733MHz-1GHz P3 (single processor)
256MB - 512MB PC133 Memory (actually, one has 1GB)
always lots of swap space (usually 1GB)
We've got about a dozen such boxes (hey, we're a startup company), and we've
had very few problems with them (uptimes of months). We run VCS, Design
Compiler, Surelint, etc. on them (mostly front-end stuff).
- Kris Monsen
Mobilygen Corp. Santa Clara, CA
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From: [ Major Tom To Ground Control ]
John, anon please.
We use: Dell hardware 2550 server 2GB of memory dual 1Ghz PIII Xeon
processors. Redhat 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1
Dell hardware CPxJ 650Mhz Latitude Desktop Redhat 6.1, 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1
(still debugging it)
The Synopsys tools that I've used work best right now on 6.2. Linux 7.0
is a 'red flag' due to C compiler issues (which can be resolved by
downloading the latest rpms for the C complier and libs) and 7.1 support
is still a bit early. (Although prelim tests seem to indicate that some
things will run.
Biggest issue is in GUI's. Linux 6.2 is the only RedHat version officially
'blessed' to use with VCS, Covermeter, Vera, Designware and soon Scirocco,
and Design Compiler.
I would LOVE to get Mac OS X support!
- [ Major Tom To Ground Control ]
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From: Rudolf Usselmann <rudi@asics.ws>
John,
Here is what I use in my (only 4) compute servers:
- ASUS motherboards (various)
- One AMD Thunderbird CPU per system, 1.33ghz
- 512 MB of memory (seems an overkill, my simulations up to 500K gates
tend to never even reach 256Mb).
- everything else is basic cheap stuff: D-Link 100BT Ethernet, the
cheapest video card I can find like Creative Graphics Blaster, or
GE Force 2 MX (a bit more complex to set up under Linux), etc.
- I started with Mandrake, switched to RedHat, just upgraded to 7.1
- Tools: Cadence NC-Verilog
These systems run me about $1200.
- Rudolf Usselmann
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