In Germany these NUCs just became available for shipping the last few days. That’s why I am currently thinking about ordering one. I have read that amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> has been shipping these already for around $300.
/Dirk > Am 12.02.2015 um 15:55 schrieb J Marc Edwards > <[email protected]>: > > 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
