Intellistation Z Pro (9228-98x)
Workstation
IBM
14 Jun 2007
90332

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Desktop 10 for x86     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. Installation and testing were done using an updated video driver from the following URL - http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=JBAR-3WTLGA&brandind=5000008

Referenced Bulletins
89288

Adapters and Drivers
Broadcom®  Integrated BCM 5752 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet LOM
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: tg3.ko
File Date: 04-Jun-2007File Size: 117708
Checksum: 9e9186d164f6354f139d55c3f28697e4

LSI Logic®  SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: mptsas.ko
File Date: 04-Jun-2007File Size: 33224
Checksum: b5c5c9a830a87a6f93c853f6fd30d004

Intel®  Integrated 6321ESB ICH
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: piix.ko
File Date: 04-Jun-2007File Size: 18064
Checksum: 276770247581245ffef343cb7cc07feb

NVIDIA®  Quadro FX 4500
Driver Type: Video DriverFile Name: nvidia_drv.so
File Date: 11-Jun-2007File Size: 1286604


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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