Servers, Supercomputers & Clusters Supportive Hardware/OS vSMP Architecture Configurations Configuration Datasheet Technology Environments & Applications Why vSMP? General Overview Datasheet vSMP Standalone Datasheet Whitepaper ScaleMP SMP Fusion1200 Server Press Releases   vSMP Supportive Hardware and Operating Systems I. Supported Hardware Processors: Intel Xeon Systems: Dell PowerEdge 1950III PowerEdge M1000e: M600 Supermicro SuperBlade : SBI-7125W-S6 6015TW-INFB / 6015TW-INFV : X7DWT-INF / X7DWT-INF+ Backplane: InfiniBand Switch: Required for more than 2 boards Dell PowerEdge M1000e: Cisco SFS M7000E InfiniBand Blade Switch for Dell M1000e Supermicro:  SuperBlade: InfiniBand Switch (SBM-IBS-001) I/O Compatibility list: On-board I/O devices LSI PCIe SAS and Fibre Channel HBAs (MPT) : SAS/SATA: LSISAS3041E-R , LSISAS3081E-R , LSISAS3801E , LSISAS3442E-R FC:  LSI7104EP-LC , LSI7204EP-LC , LSI7404EP-LC OEM Devices, please contact vsc@jrti.com. LSI PCIe Internal RAID adapters (MegaRAID®): SAS/SATA: 870xELP ,  870xEM2 ,  8880EM2 ,  8888ELP OEM Devices, please contact vsc@jrti.com. -Commonly Used Applications PDF -Customer Use Cases II. Supported Operating Systems Linux OS, kernel level 2.6.11 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 (RHEL4-5) Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) Fedora Core 4/5/6/7 (FC4-7) Open SuSE 10 (SUSE10) vSMP Foundation Capabilities Min. / Max. boards: 2 / 16 Min. / Max. memory per board: 4 GB / 128 GB Min. / Max. processors per board: 1 / 4 Min. / Max. cores per board: 1 / 8 Max. memory: 4 TB Max. processors: 64 Max. cores: 128 Fault-tolerant support: Minimum boards: 2 Dual-rail backplane support System backplane: InfiniBand InfiniBand switch required for more than 2 boards