DL360 is not a blade, but should work just fine. The minus is that it is huge, loud, and old.
i On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/10/2011 9:05 PM, Tom Feldvebel wrote: > > I am thinking of using a small rack mount cabinet to house the computer, > > keyboard& monitor for a mill conversion that we are about to undertake. > > > > I am thinking of using something like the HP Proliant DL360 with one > > Mesa 5I20 card in the open PCI slot. Here is a link to one on ebay: > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/360358391022?pt#ht_3784wt_905 > > > > Has anyone ever used a blade type server for running EMC? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Tom Feldvebel > Tom: > > No, I've never used a blade server for EMC but I did use a variety of > them in my work. They were solid performers and built to last forever > but none had any real graphics capability. > > Assuming the server had no latency issues to disrupt the linux-rtai > kernel, I'd expect you would have to use a remote-graphics terminal, > e.g., another computer, running an X-server to get the graphics > performance you want. Certainly, you'd need it to use the AXIS user > interface. Maybe you could get away with just the blade server if you > used one of the more text-oriented user interfaces. > > It seems to me the total cost likely would exceed the cost of a system > based on a new mini/microATX motherboard with integrated Atom CPU like > the Intel D510MO or its competition. > > YMMV. > > Regards, > Kent > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Xperia(TM) PLAY > It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming > smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. > And it wants your games. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
