Questions tagged [intel]

This tag should be used for questions about Intel based server platforms, software and others related specifically to hardware and software from the Intel Corporation.

Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. Intel is the inventor of the x86 processor architecture and makes central processing units, motherboard chipsets, graphic processing units, network interface controllers and much more devices related to communications and computing.

In addition to their hardware offerings Intel also produces a variety of software including compilers, libraries for mathematical computation(Intel MKL), threading(OpenMP, Intel Performance Primatives, Threading Building Blocks), parallel communication(MPI,OFED/True Scale Infiniband Stack) and several other products included in the Intel Parallel Studio toolkit. In addition to these offerings which are widely used in HPC Intel also produces software for datacenter management, is one of the most prolific contributors to the Linux kernel, and powers over 70% of the fastest computers on the planet.

This tag should be used for questions about Intel hardware and software, specifically when used on server systems.

For more information about Intel, visit their homepage: http://www.intel.com.

(note this is borrowed from the Stackoverflow Intel tag but the information is applicable)

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Operating Systems supported by the Intel SR1435VP2 Server Platform?

I recently had two Intel SR1435VP2 Servers (with SE7320VP2 server boards) donated to me from a colleague. Google hasn't yielded much more than user manuals when searching for OS-compatibility answers. I have worked with flavors of Linux such as…
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Getting VMWare ESXi 5.0.0 with RAID using the Intel X79 chipset to work

I have bought a new server where I use the motherboard ASUS P9X79 WS X79 S-2011 ATX. It will be used for virtualization, preferably using VMware vSphere Hypervisor™ (ESXi) if I can get the RAID on my motherboard working with VMWare (it does not…
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Ubuntu Only Utilizes One Link in 802.3ad

I am currently using an Intel PRO/1000 PT LP Quad Port Server NIC with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server 64 Bit. I installed Gnome so I have a GUI. I downloaded bmon 2.0.1 to monitor the network, and right now according to /proc/net/bonding/bond0 the bond is…
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Intel igb driver packet loss on Debian Linux 6.0

I am running Debian Linux 6.0 (2.6.32-5-amd64). My network NICS are Intel 82580 Gigabit running with the IGB network driver version 3.3.6 (firmware version 3.2-9). I tested the performance and I noticed massive packet drops. My test is simple:…
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Hyperthreading on multicore processors - is it of any use?

I know hyperthreading from the time long ago where the processors used to have only a single core. The technology was really usefull then. Right now, Intel is still offering hyperthreading with 6-core processors (so they can be run in 12 threads).…
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Debian 6 installation - unable to partition/mount with an Intel Raid Controller (readonly)

I'm trying to install a Debian 6 (newest version) on a Server which has 2 RAIDs. First RAID is configured on an Intel controller and is a simple RAID 1 with 3 partitions (swap, /, and a special data partition) Second RAID (not important here) is on…
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Intel Server Board: Ethernet MT connection vs PM connection

What's the difference between an MT ethernet connection and a PM ethernet connection? Intel server board has two ethernet ports that are named in that manner.
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Intel RAID Controller Rebuild RAID 5 While Windows Running

We have a RAID 5 array (3 drives) one of which failed this morning. If we take that drive out the system can boot into Windows Server '03 fine. Problem being we don't have anywhere to go if another drive fails. We have a good drive which we plugged…
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Intel 82576 Dual-Port Controller Teaming

Can I team two ports from the same controller? My scenario is that I have two switches on the same network for redundancy. I want to connect each NIC Port of a dual-port server to a separate switch in case a switch dies. I want it to failover…
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How can I upgrade the disks in my RAID 5 array on our primary server?

Our domain server/file server has a RAID 5 setup with (3) 450 GB drives configured as 900 GB disk, which is broken into two logical partitions a 25 GB boot partition and an 875 GB storage partition. A while back we we reaching capacity so I added a…
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linux hibernate working but slow

I've set up pm-hibernate on AMD and one older Intel platform. But this perticular one is giving me more trouble than usual. Issuing pm-hibernate works but hangs for a long time before finally shutting down. In the dmesg below it waits for maybe 15…
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Intel quad port gigabit PCI-e card on Poweredge 410

I installed the card and booted the server. It showed the embeded two ports as eth0 and eth1. From the PCI-e card it showed just 2 ports, one eth2, and another one as eth0-renamed. I connected a cable to all the PCI-e card ethernet slots, only on…
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What would be a ec2 unit equivalent of a X5670 hex core xeon

A ec2 compute unit is 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor. I'm looking at a X5670 hex core xeon: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=47920 Is it even possible to compare the 2? I'm looking for a rough idea, something like: 12 x ec2…
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Does VMware ESX Fault Tolerance (FT) support depend on the CPU only?

I'm trying to find out whether VMware ESX 4.x Fault Tolerance (FT) is supported on a particular server and VMware's HCL is confusing me. It says that some servers with FT-supported processors (specifically the Xeon 3400 Lynnfield) do not support FT…
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Quad Processor Intel Server

Is there any server solution out there that provides four intel processor with a minimum of 2,8Ghz clock speed? I can't seem to find this configuration anywhere. Is there any documentation that explains why this configuration is impossible / doesn't…
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