Как известно, ядерный физик – это человек, который удовлетворяет своё любопытство за государственный счёт. И в этом они в чём то схожи с системным администратором. По работе мне выдался шанс “пощупать” IBM X Series. IBM x3950 оказалась ничего так машинка, быстрая. SLES-10sp1-x86_64 поставился на неё совершенно без проблем. До SUSE я загружал разные LiveCD: DSL, FreeBSD 7.0 – вроде всё работало. При установке всё железо распозналось системой. В общем-то процесс мало чем отличался от инсталляции на обычный PC – даже скучно как-то. А вот что в результате получилось:

Конфигурация PCI-устройств:

oracle:~ # lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: IBM IBM eServer xSeries server mainboard
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 5
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
Memory at e9d00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:03.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation Hama USB 2.0 CardBus
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 217
Memory at e9d10000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:03.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation Hama USB 2.0 CardBus
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 217
Memory at e9d11000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:03.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 217
Memory at e9d12000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:0f.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0)
Subsystem: Broadcom Unknown device 0201
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 240

00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom CSB6 RAID/IDE Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 82 [Master PriP])
Subsystem: Broadcom Unknown device 0212
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at 0700 [size=16]

00:0f.3 ISA bridge: Broadcom GCLE-2 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Broadcom Unknown device 0230
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

01:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 02e7
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 201
Memory at e9c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-

01:01.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 02e7
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 209
Memory at e9c10000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-

01:02.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 02)
Subsystem: IBM ServeRAID 8i
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 240, IRQ 169
Memory at e9800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Memory at e9a00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e8020000 [disabled] [size=32K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [e0] PCI-X non-bridge device

02:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

02:01.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2422-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI-X HBA (rev 02)
Subsystem: QLogic Corp. Unknown device 0133
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 177
I/O ports at 1900 [size=256]
Memory at e9e40000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e8040000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [4c] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [64] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Capabilities: [74] Vital Product Data

04:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

04:01.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2422-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI-X HBA (rev 02)
Subsystem: QLogic Corp. Unknown device 0133
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 185
I/O ports at 1a00 [size=256]
Memory at e9f40000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e8080000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [4c] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [64] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Capabilities: [74] Vital Product Data

06:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

06:01.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2422-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI-X HBA (rev 02)
Subsystem: QLogic Corp. Unknown device 0133
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 193
I/O ports at 1b00 [size=256]
Memory at ea040000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e80c0000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [4c] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [64] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Capabilities: [74] Vital Product Data

08:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

0a:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

0c:00.0 Host bridge: IBM Calgary PCI-X Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 240
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device

Память:

oracle:~ # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:     32960344 kB
MemFree:      32569968 kB
Buffers:         21688 kB
Cached:         275404 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         109388 kB
Inactive:       202632 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:     32960344 kB
LowFree:      32569968 kB
SwapTotal:     1052216 kB
SwapFree:      1052216 kB
Dirty:               8 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       10316 kB
Mapped:           7124 kB
Slab:            42660 kB
CommitLimit:  17532388 kB
Committed_AS:    44776 kB
PageTables:       1268 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:    272576 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359465403 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Процессоры:

oracle:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 6
model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 3002.676
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 6
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6019.82
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

ну, дальше скучно, одно и то же, вплоть до:

processor       : 15
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 6
model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 3002.676
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 13
siblings        : 4
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 6
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6005.76
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Весьма примечательно, что 4 процессора “развернулись” в 16: 4 процессора, по 2 ядра, каждое с гипертритингом – вот в итоге и вышло столько.

Что ещё в итоге сказать? Жёсткие диски не очень большие (зеркало на 73 ГБ), так как основные объёмы носителей будут использованы на хранилищах.

Ну естественно, это только начало и “бесчеловечные опыты” продолжатся. Думаю, когда-нибудь руки дойдут и до P Series 🙂