[ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation

[Greg Clifton]

Well, I din't have presence of mind to ask about OS. The purchasing agent
just gave me a HP part number, and I had no idea what it even was until I
did a bit of googling. So far I haven't been able to drill down to the
actual system specs. All the documents I am finding on the HP site for this
model are dated 2004, so I assume it is obsolete.

To my recollection, nobody even develops OSes for Itanium any more. I know
M$ quit a year or two back and seems I recently saw something about Ubuntu
or maybe it was RedHat ceasing development. If it is in fact an "Itanic"
system, then HP is the only game in town, and I probably wouldn't be
authorized to buy it, even if they still make them. We're a white box system
builder and don't have any big brand authorizations (HP, IBM, etc.).
However, if it is discontinued, maybe they would accept a used one, which I
could probably buy from one of the system recyclers?

Thanks for the input, Jeff.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

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>  I happen to have a Visualize B180L sitting here running Debian which has
> a port to PA-RISC.   This one is a 32 bit machine.   I’m thinking the J was
> probably a 64 bit machine.****
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> HP’s used PA-RISC processors built by HP until a few years ago when you
> could get either PA-RISC or Itanium (at least in the HP 9000 servers).   As
> you surmised this is actually workstation class machine and unfortunately I
> don’t know if they offered similar in that class though I’m guessing they
> did.   (In server class they were using rp for PA-RISC and rx for Itanium so
> it may be the X here means Itanium.)****
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> So the main question would be what OS and version do they want to run?
> HP-UX up through 11.11 (a/k/a 11iV1) only ran on PA-RISC.   11.22 ran on
> Itanium IIRC and 11.23 ran on PA-RISC (these were a/k/a 11iV2).   11.3x ran
> on either IIRC.   However, HP discontinued manufacture of PA-RISC based
> systems at the end of 2009 so the only servers they build now for HP-UX are
> the Itanium ones.****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Greg
> Clifton
> *Sent:* Friday, July 15, 2011 2:31 PM
> *To:* **Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts** - Yes! We run Linux!
> *Subject:* [ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation****
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> Need some grey beard assistance. I just got a call from a government
> purchasing agent asking for a quote for one of these/or equivalent. From
> what I have found on HP web site it is a HP UX box, that I am assuming is
> discontinued, but I haven't been able to drill down to the system specs to
> see if I could build an eq system for them. Can anybody with HP experience
> give me some pointers on where to look?****
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