Comments | shae: First QS20 blade up and running!

shae

First QS20 blade up and running!

Jun 21, 2009 01:19

This weekend's goal was to install Yellow Dog Linux on my Cell blades (those that have drives, at least). The winning solution was found by Bartek Kochan ( Read more... )

qs20, bladecenter

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Way Off-topic cuz I don't understand a d*d thing u say anymore :) phix_bham June 22 2009, 20:31:04 UTC

The way LiveJournal orders its archive is frustrating: the months are newest to oldest, but the days of the months are oldest to newest.
BTW, I have to admit, I was poking around, and liked the entry about the old man "talking to himself"!

rabitguy October 1 2009, 16:49:12 UTC

Just found this by the magic of Google. I have a dozen QS20s (and one QS21, and three CAB cell-on-PCIe cards), a few Blade accessory boards, several Infininet boards & PCI-e risers, that I bought a year ago but never got around to picking up a Bladecenter. I'd really love to dive into this and after reading your post, I just might. Especially with an eBay seller with a lot of 8677's going for $200.

Any success in getting more than one QS20 running, and communicating over gigabit ethernet? Read somewhere that for some (odd) reason, despite taking 7 QS20s, only 6 can be used... Could be wrong.

shae October 2 2009, 14:31:50 UTC

Yes, I have two QS20s running, and talking to the rest of the world ( ... )

rabitguy October 7 2009, 05:00:50 UTC

Awesome info, thanks! IBM's website is exceptionally vague about these details and only just recently found out about the Bladecenter S, which is probably what I'll go for. I have 220v but not to my computer room where I'd like to set this up.

Tried contacted Mercury Computer for info on the CAB boards which should plug into a PC just like any PCI-e graphics card but they outright refused to sell me the simple power-splitter connector nor even give me any pin details to make my own.