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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What is "Node Composing" in Intel RSD?

Intel Rack Scale Design (RSD) has some concepts like "Disaggregated Hardware" and allows "Node Composition", but I am not able to find what exactly this is or how it works. EG If a rack has 4 servers, each with its own Processors and Memory and…
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How to remove a dmraid RAID1 member (mark as faulty)?

I have RHEL 6.8 installed on a fake Intel RAID1 (Intel Matrix). It's managed by dmraid, consists of sda and sdb and the device name is /dev/mapper/ddf1_4c5349202020202080862682000000004711471100000a28p1 Now I want to write something else to sdb. How…
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Can I mix ECC RDIMMs with different rank?

I have an Intel S5520SC motherboard with two Intel Xeon E5620 CPUs installed. It currently has six KVR13R9D4/8I DIMMS - I want to add another six DIMMs (48GB of RAM) to upgrade this workstation to 96GB of RAM. Unfortunately, Kingston has…
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CentOS 5.3 Installed on INTEL all files show as AMD

Random possible issue I can't seem to find a quick answer too. I've installed CentOS 5.3 on an Intel Xeon system, however all installed binaries show AMD arch along with all custom source bins showing AMD --- I am having strange issues and I'm…
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Does disabling VT-d and interrupt remapping break MSI-X?

So I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 server running Debian Jessie which according to some docs has a faulty chipset: https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7014344 (Intel 5500 rev 13). The provided shell test confirms the presence of this chipset:…
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Isn't setting "Number of RSS queues" to "1" pointless?

If I understand RSS (Receive Side Scaling) correctly, the src/dst IP+port combos of incoming UDP and TCP packets get hashed, and the packet gets distributed into the available RSS queues using that hash value, using some mapping like hashCode modulo…
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How to recover an Intel RAID 0 on a Rocks cluster distribution

We had a Rocks 5.5 distribution on our cluster and wanted to upgrade to 6.2. The "/export" partition was mounted on a Intel software RAID 0 array of 2 identical hard drives (HD) (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc) and the rest of partitions namely, "/", "/var"…
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ProLiant SE316M1 + Intel S3500 SSD + Smart Array P410 512MB. Battery (BBWC) needed?

I'm looking to replace our SQL Server: HP Proliant DL360 G4 2x 64-bit Intel Xeon 3.60 GHz, 1M Cache, 800 MHz FSB 4GB RAM DDR2 HP Smart Array 6i 2x 146GB SCSI 15K (RAID 1) With this: HP ProLiant SE316M1 2x Intel Xeon L5520 (8M Cache,…
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What happens to a random bit error in the cache on an Intel CPU?

I have a system with ECC RAM and a Xeon E3 CPU. My understanding is that ECC circuits on the RAM will detect corruption from random bit errors in the RAM chips. But what happens to random bit errors inside the memory stored in an Intel CPU? e.g. the…
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How does intel RAID Keys work on intel server motherboard and how do we set up hardware RAID?

We are looking to purchase an intel S2600GZ with two Xeons for a new server. We would like to run a setup of 12 disks, as the barebones we are looking at support up to 12. The idea is to run the Windows 2012 Hyper-V host on on pair of RAID 1 disks,…
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SAS disk and intel motherboard

What kind of Cable shall I use to connect [ http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Enterprise-Hard-Drive-WD1001FYYG/dp/B0090UELTW ] and server board: http://ark.intel.com/products/56334/intel-server-board-s2600cp4 in the board specification i have : Integrated…
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how do you disable Intel KVM user consent requirement?

I'm trying to setup Intel vPro AMT KVM (Remote Desktop). I enabled AMT using the Intel SCS AMT Wizard. I'm now trying to use MCTME (shown in screenshot) to remotely connect to the computer. It works, but I need someone to read off an access code to…
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Dell R510 can i go from E5620 to X5690

I have a Dell R510 used for a SQl server. Can I go from E5620 to X5690? They are both in the same Intel Xeon 5600 series. But the i did not know if a X (Performance) is interchangeable E (Mainstream). If not then the fastest upgrade i can make…
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Cannot create zpool, how to get rid of intel raid volume?

This is a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer. It has 5 disks installed. The ada0 and ada1 disks are used with a hw raid to provide the root filesystem: root@gw:/home/gandalf # ls /dev | grep ada ada0 ada1 ada2 ada3 ada4 root@gw:/home/gandalf # zpool status …
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What is good about Intel Vt-d technology for direct IO?

I'm interested in 2 CPUs ( or I should APUs ? ) the main difference between this 2 units it's the presence of a Vt-d feature that Intel names "Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)". Since I'm also interested in running…
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