[HELP!] - Ubuntu dekstop on DL380 G7

[Delphi Pascal]

Hello,

 

I've bought an old HP DL380 G7 server with 2x X5650s and 64GB of ram to run fluid simulations on. I planned on installing ubuntu desktop but it's the slowest thing know to man. I've read that this might be due to graphics capability of the server. I didn't consider this because I spent a year working in IT and we had these servers running Windows Server no issues. I've tried CentOS 7 with GNOME but that went to a black screen as soon as it booted and I pressed anything, apparently for the same issue. 

 

Am I going to have to bite the bullet and buy an dedicated GPU or does anyone have any other ideas? 

 

Cheers

Fraser

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just run it without the gui? You should be able to run almost all programs without a gui in linux.

 

But if you need a gui, use something like lxde that is much more lightweight.

[Delphi Pascal]

27 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Just run it without the gui? You should be able to run almost all programs without a gui in linux.

 

But if you need a gui, use something like lxde that is much more lightweight.

I’m running MATLAB on it so need the GUI. I’ll try lxde. 

 

Cheers!

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 minutes ago, Delphi Pascal said:

I’m running MATLAB on it so need the GUI. I’ll try lxde. 

 

Cheers!

You should be able to run matlab without a gui, or just send jobs out to the server as needed.

[Delphi Pascal]

47 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You should be able to run matlab without a gui, or just send jobs out to the server as needed.

This is something I will have to look into! Cheers