The tool is certainly useful, but have you also thought about having Dell (or HP) integration service doing the burn-in for you before delivery? We have our integrator run a lot of tests before shipping us a rack of machines using off the shelf tools that stress memory and CPU in particular. Memtest is one such that is semi-obvious, but also Linpack immediately comes to mind as a general purpose CPU and memory stresser. You can also use the results of the test to validate conformance to baseline. It is possible for memory to seem otherwise fine but perform 20% slower without any ECC errors. We've seen occassional weird cases like that. Of course, this all works better when you are getting some number of machines at a time vs a singleton. For singletons, the integration and testing overhead is very high because they have to unbox and rebox.
This is a decent general purpose test suite. You could do something like specify "Integrator shall run 24 hours of http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpc/ achieving CPU throughput no less than <x> and memory bandwidth no less than <y>" Tests like that are good for catching early failures. Linpack really heats up a system. Sent from my android device. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Julian <[email protected]> To: LOPSA Discuss <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 9:13 AM Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Hardware burn-in tools Hey all, We're investigating options for doing hardware burn-ins on servers before we hand them off to customers, thanks to a long history of hardware failures within 24-72 hours of handing them over. We're an all-Dell shop, though we are also looking at moving to HP sometime soon-ish (leaving us with supporting both Dell and HP). Ideally, we'd love something that can easily be automated and is Linux-based. What tool recommendations do you have? -Mike
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