From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fncnmp03.fnc.fujitsu.com (fncnmp03.fnc.fujitsu.com [168.127.0.56]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647475686 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:54:04 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,757,1413262800"; d="scan'208";a="59398262" Received: from unknown (HELO [168.127.130.2]) ([168.127.130.2]) by fncnmp01.fnc.fujitsu.com with ESMTP; 14 Jan 2015 13:54:03 -0600 Message-ID: <54B6C95A.4090608@us.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:54:02 -0600 From: Ravi Rao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wiles, Keith" References: <20150109092659.GA11296@bricha3-MOBL3> <2334334.VuS9a0PCxR@xps13> <54B6B674.5040106@us.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] New to DPDK X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:54:05 -0000 Thanks a lot for the quick response. On 01/14/2015 01:27 PM, Wiles, Keith wrote: > Most people I guess use a Xeon CPU class MB with one or two sockets > running Linux with a supported NICs. I use a motherboard like the one > below running Ubuntu 12.04 with 12G RAM and the 82599 NICs. You can find > more supported NICs in the documentation and you need find the rest of the > parts :-) You do not need much disk space I have a 500G disk and you can > use less memory, but that is something you need to decide on. > > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/server-motherboards/ser > ver-board-w2600cr.html > > > On 1/14/15, 12:33 PM, "Ravi Rao" wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I am a newbee to DPDK. Can one of you please let me know if there is >> any reference board that is available which I can use to build and >> tryout the dpdk stuff on. >> Regards, >> Ravi