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Particulate contamination:
Airborne particulates and reactive gases that act alone or with other
environmental factors, such as, humidity or temperature that might pose a
risk to the compute node. For more information about the limits for
particulates and gases, see “Particulate contamination” on page 229 in the
IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4 Installation and Service Guide.
4.18 Operating systems support
The server supports the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition U9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition U4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T SP3
VMware vSphere 5.0 U2
VMware vSphere 5.1 U1
Table 4-36 lists the operating system support for GPUs and coprocessors.
Table 4-36 Operating system support for GPU and coprocessor adapters
Operating system
NVIDIA Tesla K10
NVIDIA Tesla K40m
NVIDIA Tesla K20X
NVIDIA Grid K1
NVIDIA Grid K2
Intel Xeon Phi 7120P
Intel Xeon Phi 5110P
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) Y Y Y Y
a
Y
a
Y Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition
Y Y YNNNN
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Y Y Y Y
a
Y
a
Y Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Y Y Y Y
a
Y
a
Y Y
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T (SP3)
Y Y YNNY Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition (U10)
Y
a
Y
a
Y
a
NNNN
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition (U5)
Y Y YNNY Y