[Bio-Linux] Bio-Linux on Dell R720
Tim Booth
tbooth at ceh.ac.uk
Mon Mar 30 08:18:05 EDT 2015
Hi Robert,
Strange that you should find the server version of 14.04 works but the
desktop doesn't, because the kernel and drivers are identical. The
server installer just puts on a different selection of packages. Is it
possible that the Unity desktop, which uses the 3D capabilities of the
graphics card, is triggering the crash, do you think?
So does this mean you are running vanilla 14.04 from the server
installation and installing just the Bio-Linux packages you need, or did
you try using my upgrade script to add all the Bio-Linux stuff in one
go?
Cheers,
TIM
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 12:25 +0100, Robert Tyx wrote:
> Hi,
> In contrast to Mohendra, I have not been able to get BL8 to install
> successfully on a Dell R720. There's probably a way to get it to work
> (special drivers or something) but I don't know. It gets a kernel
> panic pretty quickly every time. For what it's worth, vanilla Ubuntu
> 14.04 LTS workstation does not install either, but the server version
> works fine. BL 7 works fine on this system also...
>
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>
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> Hi,
>
> We are running 3(three) servers with Bio-linux 8 and one of the me is
> a
> Dell r520 with 2 8core Xeon processors and 128GiB RAM. Tony Travis
> from
> Aberdeen University helped us in customisation of the servers. We use
> these
> servers for NGS data analysis and Simulation studies using Gromacs.
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> Mahendra
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> > 1. is it possible to install biolinux on a dell server with 64Gb
> > RAM and 16 cores? (Stefano Campanaro)
> > 2. Re: is it possible to install biolinux on a dell server with
> > 64Gb RAM and 16 cores? (Tony Travis)
> > 3. Re: is it possible to install biolinux on a dell server with
> > 64Gb RAM and 16 cores? (Sharma, M D)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:54:58 +0100
> > From: Stefano Campanaro <stefano.campanaro at gmail.com>
> > To: bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Bio-Linux] is it possible to install biolinux on a dell
> > server with 64Gb RAM and 16 cores?
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> > Hi,
> > I would install biolinux on a recently acquired DELL server with
> 64Gb RAM
> > and 16 cores. I would have some suggestions from users that are
> using bio
> > linux on servers with similar characteristics.
> > Thank you
> > Sincerely
> > --
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:19:43 +0000
> > From: Tony Travis <tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk>
> > To: <bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [Bio-Linux] is it possible to install biolinux on a
> dell
> > server with 64Gb RAM and 16 cores?
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> > On 27/03/15 16:54, Stefano Campanaro wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I would install biolinux on a recently acquired DELL server with
> 64Gb
> > > RAM and 16 cores. I would have some suggestions from users that
> are
> > > using bio linux on servers with similar characteristics.
> >
> > Hi, Stefano.
> >
> > I'm running Bio-Linux 8 on three Tyan S8230-based servers with dual
> > 8-core Opteron 6128 CPU's and 128GiB RAM in each at the University
> of
> > Aberdeen. I installed Bio-Linux onto a partitionable RAID6, but boot
> > from a RAID1 because GRUB can't boot from a degraded RAID6 - OK to
> boot
> > from RAID6 if it's not degraded.
> >
> > I've also set up Bio-Linux terminal servers many times in the past,
> for
> > example at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh,
> and
> > I helped my friends at Assam Agricultural University set up
> Bio-Linux 8
> > servers there for a training course we held recently.
> >
> > Bio-Linux 8 works very well as an "x2go" or SSH terminal server,
> thanks
> > to the efforts that Tim and his team at EOS have put into Bio-Linux
> 8.
> >
> > I've got 10 at SATA2 drives in each of our three Bio-Linux servers
> here:
> >
> > 6 at 2TB:
> > RAID1 /boot
> > RAID6 /, swap, /usr/local, /home, work
> >
> > 2 at 4TB:
> > JBOD /backup1
> > JBOD /backup2
> >
> > 2 at 4TB:
> > JBOD /archive
> > JBOD /scratch
> >
> > Let me know if there is anything I can do to help?
> >
> > If you boot your server from a Bio-Linux USB-stick and let me in
> through
> > your firewall I can install it for you remotely. I've done this
> several
> > times already for disaster recovery on an EU FP-6 project.
> >
> > Tony.
> >
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:17:56 +0000
> > From: "Sharma, M D" <M.D.Sharma at exeter.ac.uk>
> > To: Stefano Campanaro <stefano.campanaro at gmail.com>, "Bio-Linux help
> > and discussion" <bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk>,
> > "bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk"
> <bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [Bio-Linux] is it possible to install biolinux on a
> dell
> > server with 64Gb RAM and 16 cores?
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> > Absolutely... I have it as you described and also with 64 cores and
> 512 GB
> > of RAM..
> >
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> > On 27 Mar 2015 16:55, Stefano Campanaro
> <stefano.campanaro at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would install biolinux on a recently acquired DELL server with
> 64Gb RAM
> > and 16 cores. I would have some suggestions from users that are
> using bio
> > linux on servers with similar characteristics.
> > Thank you
> > Sincerely
> > --
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