Dirk:
I will also be moving my NUC work to the Broadwell NUCs as well. These Broadwell NUCs were just announced at CES in January. I have not seen these Broadwell NUCs available through the normal sales channels yet. The places that are advertising them are showing "Temporarily out of stock”. I am actually working directly with Intel to secure some immediate samples of these NUCs. I can’t drive down into the Broadwell versus Haswell details, but on the surface we’re looking at die shrink to 14nm and some low power enhancements. I’d be very surprised if SmartOS/OmniOS/SDC would not install and run. I’ll definitely follow the SSD/HDD issue. However, my plan is to use the m2SATA as the primary storage on the Broadwell NUC. -M From: Dirk Steinberg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:41 AM To: [email protected]; J Marc Edwards Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS / SDC on Intel Broadwell Marc, you NUC seems to be Haswell-based and I am glad to hear that there are no problems with SmartOS. My main concern is that a new CPU generation like Broadwell might need some specific support code inside the kernel, and I am unsure if the current SmartOS kernel does support this. Same concern applies to M.2 PCIe SSDs like XP941. I assume that they also might need specific kernel support. Especially for the new NUCs that support one M.2 and a regular HDD it would be very interesting to be able to use the M.2 as log and/or cache device for a 2 TB 2.5“ HDD. /Dirk You are right that these NUC would PXE-boot to be a compute node. Am 12.02.2015 um 15:24 schrieb J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: Dirk: I just went through this experience using the D54250WYK/H NUC. No problems whatsoever in SmartOS installation. I did not try SDC on the NUC, but as SDC is an orchestration layer in Node.js on SmartOS, I don’t see an issue here. I’m assuming you are going to pull together the NUCs as a head node and compute nodes. As the NUCs also PXE boot, I don’t see any issues with SDC in this respect either. As I was interested in also provisioning my NUC as a desktop system, I have also been able to install OmniOS on the same NUC. I was able to install Xorg/Gnome on OmniOS on the NUC with no issues. Please keep me informed as to your progress. Regards, Marc ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
