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Martin Hope
Matt
Asked: 2020-12-22 14:21:55 +0800 CST
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I am testing a GPU Compute Server (ASUS ESC8000 G4) with 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs and I ran the newest version of the Intel Diagnostic Tool (IPDT, Version 4.1.4.36.W.MP) and the tool passes all tests and indicates that both are Genuine Intel CPUs. But CPU-Z and HWInfo show the CPUs are Engineering Samples ("ES"). What is going on? Should I rely on Intel's Diagnostic Tool or doubt the CPUs to be genuine production-grade products? All hardware diagnostic tools I tried (HWInfo, CPU-Z, IPDT, Task Manager show that all cores run at full spec capacity and I have not had any issues so far) but the CPU-Z and HWInfo page still makes me doubt...any ideas what is going on? I also noticed that the newest version of the Intel IPDT tool does not include the SPBC tool, could that be the reason? Where can I get the SPBC tool?

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Martin Hope
Matt
Asked: 2019-03-07 02:13:41 +0800 CST
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I have a mellanox sn2700 switch with qsfp28 100g ports and meet to connect a router for DHCP and internet that only has rj45 ports.

Is there a way to connect the two via an adapter/cable?

Edit:

I am eyeballing the following two adapters and wonder whether anyone ever got this to work:

https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-Compatible-SFP-GE-T-Transceiver-1000Base-T/dp/B00U77IJ2M/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=10gtek+rj45+sfp&qid=1552365069&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Mellanox-Network-Adapter-QSFP-MAM1Q00A-QSA/dp/B00FFVFVS0/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=mellanox+qsa&pd_rd_i=B00FFVFVS0&pd_rd_r=d548f70a-1419-440d-9ffb-fc5672fec5df&pd_rd_w=XC7Rp&pd_rd_wg=ru8ji&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=0NKSBWGSSCVPKGW1NYQ6&qid=1552365080&s=gateway

router
Martin Hope
Matt
Asked: 2019-02-07 19:54:56 +0800 CST
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I have 3 computers that I want to connect via 100Gbe network connections. 2 of the computers/servers are equipped with Mellanox ConnectX-4 single adapters and one computer is equipped with a dual ConnectX-4 adapter that has two QSFP28 connectors. The purpose of the latter computer is to function as storage server. So far I connect the other two machines each directly with the storage server and it works.

However, the two machines that connect to the storage server cannot communicate with each other. My question is: Can I configure the storage server, which houses the dual ConnectX-4 adapter and which connects to each of the two machines directly, in a way so that the two machines can communicate with each other via some sort of bridge on the storage server? Obviously I still want each of the machine to have access to the storage server but also want each of the machines to be able to communicate with each other.

My OS is Windows 10 for Workstatations for all machines but I am willing to consider a full-fledged Windows Server OS if it solves my problem but W10fWS does not.

Edit: This is not a data center or production environment but for experimental purpose. 100G switches are incredibly expensive for a small lab environment and only 3 machines hence my wanting to solve this issue on the software side.

networking
Martin Hope
Matt
Asked: 2017-01-12 01:51:26 +0800 CST
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Is there a way to force installation of Windows Server 2016 Standard in English? The only choice in my install iso is German and I cannot choose English which I find very strange. Changing the system language to English via downloading the language pack is not an option because it is not implemented well. Half the system component names and system messages are still German. For example even after downloading and installing the English language pack the component "Device Manager" does not exist but only the German "Geraetemanager".

Anyone know why I cannot choose English from the get-go?

Thanks

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