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Re: Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine?

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You may want to have a chat to IX Systems. They do a lot of pre ship 'white glove testing' which means they may have an opportunity to let you remotely borrow one before they run their shakedown testing battery.

For instance they built this 40 core / 80 logical thread monster. http://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/megacore-freebsd-foundati...

And sell two 64 Core machines as part of their standard product lineup.

The Mercury - (AMD Opteron) - http://www.ixsystems.com/servers/families/?family=Mercury%20...

and

The Neptune - (Intel Xeon) - http://www.ixsystems.com/servers/families/?family=Neptune%20...

Re: Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine?

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Post by techdragon »

sbenario wrote: post #5
davismwfl wrote: post #3

You might check with a couple of the OS/hardware vendors too. I know Microsoft used to have labs on both east and west coasts that allow you to do this type of debugging, I would imagine they still do. Sun used to do the same thing back in the day, not sure since Oracle took over, but it would be worth a call. IBM/HP also might have a lab environment where you can test on. Maybe call the machine vendor your client us…

Good idea! I'll check on that!

If the software is running on RHEL, you should talk to Red Hat. I'm pretty sure that customers with a RHEL support contract can get access to application support from Red Hat to debug issues on the OS.

I also know first hand from Red Hat employees that they have a dedicated infrastructure for testing just this kind of "weird issue only happens on $foo hardware" stuff.

And while i can't confirm this as directly, I'm quite sure their hardware testing pool will contain some hardware that can help with debugging an issue like this.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine?

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Post by sbenario »

techdragon wrote: post #11

You may want to have a chat to IX Systems. They do a lot of pre ship 'white glove testing' which means they may have an opportunity to let you remotely borrow one before they run their shakedown testing battery. For instance they built this 40 core / 80 logical thread monster. http://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/megacore-freebsd-foundati... And sell two 64 Core machines as part of their standard product lineup. The Me…

Another great option. I'll try to get in touch with them today!

Re: Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine?

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Post by sbenario »

techdragon wrote: post #12
sbenario wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea! I'll check on that!

If the software is running on RHEL, you should talk to Red Hat. I'm pretty sure that customers with a RHEL support contract can get access to application support from Red Hat to debug issues on the OS. I also know first hand from Red Hat employees that they have a dedicated infrastructure for testing just this kind of "weird issue only happens on $foo hardware" stuff. And while i can't confirm this as directly, I'm q…

Indeed this was running on RHEL, though our client is a RHEL customer, and so far we aren't.
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