Novascale Universal R423 E2
Network Server
BULL
18 Jun 2009
126030

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T®


Product Description
With the Bull NovaScale R423 E2 server, Bull upgrades its range of HPC-specific servers. The NovaScale R423 E2 service node combines advanced connectivity features, extended storage options and redundancy, to ensure efficient and reliable service.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:X8DTN
BIOS:AMI BIOS v. 8.15
CPU:2 Intel®  Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:24 GB
Bus Type:Serial
2 PCI Express X16
2 PCI Express X4
2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:ATI®  ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:Supermicro Computer  AOC-USAS-S8iR-LP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:2 Seagate®  ST3146855SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21


Config Notes
1) Install: The SLES install was performed using a network install method.
2) Power management: Hibernation / Suspend to Disk / ACPI S4 is supported on this system.


Adapters and Drivers
Mellanox®  MT26428 ConnectX IB QDR
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: mlx4_core.ko
File Date: 28-Feb-2009File Size: 123384

4 Intel®  Integrated 82571 EB
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: e1000e.ko
File Date: 28-Feb-2009File Size: 173960
Checksum: 44b0d2cccdf9984610922b80b59a0772

2 Intel®  82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: igb.ko
File Date: 28-Feb-2009File Size: 116120
Checksum: 384f7df9f6046f20813724fd8b777e72

Supermicro Computer  AOC-USAS-S8iR-LP
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: aacraid.ko
File Date: 28-Feb-2009File Size: 125048
Checksum: ab226fa93f734e300dfd1cdf1ff0a0a3

ATI®  ES1000
Driver Type: Video DriverFile Name: radeon_drv.so
File Date: 25-Feb-2009File Size: 605728
Checksum: 7206f6384c3ece573e2f36326d02bf0d


The term YES CERTIFIED applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. Components including LAN adapters, host bus adapters and other individually YES CERTIFIED components may be exchanged for other YES CERTIFIED components. For more information on swapping YES CERTIFIED components, please access the following web page:

http://developer.novell.com/devres/system/policy/exchange.htm

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

BULL
Bull GmbH
Von-der-Wettern-Straße 27
Köln   51149
GERMANY