Machine Specifications - Round 2

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Machine specifications for second round purchase

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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?

Lage memory machine

Single threaded computing

Storage experiments

Attached fast storage devices such as PCI card memory

Multi-core machines

320 core machines

GPU

NL groups interested in this - will it fit in the above?