From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ravi Rao Subject: Re: New to DPDK Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:54:02 -0600 Message-ID: <54B6C95A.4090608@us.fujitsu.com> References: <20150109092659.GA11296@bricha3-MOBL3> <2334334.VuS9a0PCxR@xps13> <54B6B674.5040106@us.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: "Wiles, Keith" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 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