Intellistation Z Pro (9228-92x)
Workstation
IBM
12 Jun 2007
90063

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Desktop 10 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T®     Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLED 10

Product Description
The IntelliStation® Z Pro is a high-performance, robust graphics workstation that helps optimize compute-intensive 2D/3D applications. It is ideal for demanding technical users, from engineers and molecular chemists to animators and geologists. For demanding graphics-rich applications, the Z Pro offers dual-socket computing power and supports up to four-core processor performance with expandable memory. The Z Pro features flexible configurations to help meet current and future applications needs. Leverage the Z Pro expandability for multi-threaded applications-when the time is right. Supporting a wide range of graphics cards from Performance 2D to High Extreme 3D, the Z Pro allows dual-graphics card installation, enabling expanded graphics capability. The Z Pro excels at intensive graphics processing and enabling multiple monitor use. Hardware encryption, a new integrated design feature, helps provide data and storage security1. And improved noise control helps make effective team collaboration a reality. Select configurations of the Z Pro workstation are part of the IBM Express Portfolio™, designed and priced to meet the needs of midsized businesses. Reliable and easy to manage, Express models/configurations vary by country.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Tower
Mother Board Revision:1.0
BIOS:C3E140AUS - 1.40
CPU:2 Intel®  Dual-Core Xeon® Processor 5160 3.00 GHz
RAM:2048 MB
Bus Type:PCI Express X8
32-bit/33MHz PCI
2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
2 PCI Express X16
6 USB Ports
Serial
2 1394 Firewire
Video Adapter:NVIDIA®  Quadro FX 4500
Desktop Effect Enabled:Yes
Power Management:Yes
Host Bus Adapter:LSI Logic®  SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Intel®  Integrated 6321ESB ICH , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:IBM  73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:HLDS  GCC-4482B , IDE
USB Floppy:IBM
Test Kit:System Certification Kit 6.1.0-0.25

Config Notes
#1. The video driver used for install and testing is an updated driver. Please see the following URL for the latest version - http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=JBAR-3WTLGA&brandind=5000008

Referenced Bulletins
89276

Adapters and Drivers
Broadcom®  Integrated BCM 5752 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet LOM
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: tg3.ko
File Date: 18-May-2007File Size: 152216
Checksum: c8c42cc2c53bbc71d8f49ed6b1408cef

LSI Logic®  SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: mptsas.ko
File Date: 18-May-2007File Size: 53184
Checksum: 1255689342cffe202a242e82e27883f4

Intel®  Integrated 6321ESB ICH
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: piix.ko
File Date: 18-May-2007File Size: 35072
Checksum: 50afaf27507907da31b2636bef0c7bc7

NVIDIA®  Quadro FX 4500
Driver Type: File Name: nvidia_drv.so
File Date: 05-Jun-2007File Size: 1396264


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:

IBM
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