On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:45:05AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > bit of both - supermicro and tyan both rely on add-in cards, but > HP (and probably some other vendors) have integrated IPMI onboard.
SunFire X2100 (M2) used to have discrete IPMI boards, but are now integrated on the motherboard. A couple HP Proliant DL165 G5 had discrete management boards. > I keep reading stuff from Intel and AMD about managability which > sounds tantalizingly like IPMI-like managability being integrated > into the chipset. SunFire X2100 M2 does this (the Broadcom NIC pair), and with the latest BIOS pretty well. > I think the main issue is that ipmi needs a lan interface, though > I guess there are some examples of it sharing a port with the host. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
