Machine Specifications - Round 2: Difference between revisions
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- Support full PCIe size cards<br> | - Support full PCIe size cards<br> | ||
- PCIe Gen. 3, multiple slots of x16 or x8<br> | - PCIe Gen. 3, multiple slots of x16 or x8 - At least 2 slots which are 2-slot-wide and 2 slots that are 1-slot-wide<br> | ||
- Haswell CPU or higher<br> | - Haswell CPU or higher<br> | ||
- 2 sockets (but only few machines fully populated) | - 2 sockets (but only few machines fully populated) | ||
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See evaluation report here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UHC0FaylwvpGbeXcVh8s1axDQfmzSvejWTf_lRCAgzI/edit?usp=sharing link] | See evaluation report here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UHC0FaylwvpGbeXcVh8s1axDQfmzSvejWTf_lRCAgzI/edit?usp=sharing link] | ||
Additional requirements (to be tested before purchase):<br> | |||
- Be able to drive 100G adapter cards (support bifurcation) <br> | |||
- Be able to drive 4 x 40G (2 x 2 x 40G or 4 x 1 x 40G), to 2 processing sockets (to be tested using two 80G Solarflare cards)<br> | |||
==== Large memory machine ==== | ==== Large memory machine ==== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:32, 17 March 2015
Machine specifications for second round purchase
Discussion on this page is public so please avoid any comments that would bring the department into disrepute.
Storage for experimental data
Some fibre-channel/NFS provision Looking at 1PB storage in total. Looking for a system where this could at least be doubled if necessary. Want NFS access to the files ideally.
Networking requirements
What networking kit is needed here?
- Multi 10G NICs (2-port can be Gen.2, 4 port must be Gen.3 or x16)
- Several 40G NICs (must be Gen.3, if 2-port needs to be x16)
- Optical switch (e.g. Polatis, Glimmerglass, ideally 192x192...)
- fibres and direct attach cables for the amount of NICs
Networking machines
- Support full PCIe size cards
- PCIe Gen. 3, multiple slots of x16 or x8 - At least 2 slots which are 2-slot-wide and 2 slots that are 1-slot-wide
- Haswell CPU or higher
- 2 sockets (but only few machines fully populated)
- >3GHz freq
See evaluation report here: link
Additional requirements (to be tested before purchase):
- Be able to drive 100G adapter cards (support bifurcation)
- Be able to drive 4 x 40G (2 x 2 x 40G or 4 x 1 x 40G), to 2 processing sockets (to be tested using two 80G Solarflare cards)
Large memory machine
Single threaded computing
Storage experiments
Attached fast storage devices such as PCI card memory
Storage machine
Storage server(s) that are used for experimentations (i.e. not to store experimentation results, but for dev & test)
Multi-core machines
320 core machines
"simple" multi-socket 8+ core machines
GPU
NL groups interested in this - will it fit in the above?
