D I S C O S

Clusters

IBM Manycore (120 Cores) Server

  • Model: IBM System x3950 X6
  • Processor: Up to eight Intel Xeon E7-4800/8800 v2 processor families up to 3.2 GHz, up to 1600 MHz memory access, 15 cores per processor
  • Cache: Up to 37.5MB
  • Memory: Up to 12.0 TB, 192 x 64 GB LRDIMMs
  • Ultra-low latency Flash storage: Up to 12.8 TB, 32 x 400 GB eXFlash DIMMs
  • Expansion slots: Up to 22 PCIe; Gen3 (up to 22), Gen 2 (up to 4), up to ten x16 slots; up to 12 full-length, full-height
  • Disk bays(total/hot-swap) : Up to sixteen 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or SAS solid state drives (SSDs) or up to thirty two 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs
  • Maximum internal storage: Up to 19.2 TB, 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or up to 25.6 TB, 16 x 2.5-inch SSDs or 12.8 TB, 32 x 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs
  • Network Interface: Two ML2 sockets; ML2 card choices include: 4 x 1 GbE copper or 2 x 10 GbE SFP+ or 2 x 10 GbE 10BaseT. Two dedicated 1 GbE on-board management ports
  • Power supply: Up to eight common 1400 W or 900 W AC or 8 x 750 W DC
  • Hot-swap components: Half-Length I/O Books, Full-Length I/O Books, power supplies, fans, hard disk drives, SSDs
  • RAID support: RAID-0, -1, optional RAID-5, -6
  • Systems management: Alert on LAN 2, automatic server restart, IBM Systems Director, IBM ServerGuide®, IMM2, light path diagnostics(independently powered) , Wake on LAN, Dynamic System analysis, Predictive Failure Analysis on storage, processors, adapter slots, VRMs, fans, power supplies and memory
  • Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, VMware vSphere Hypervisor

RAPTOR Cluster

  • Nodes: 9 ( 1 Management Node and 8 Compute Nodes )
  • Cores: 80 ( 160 with hyper-threading )
  • Cores per Node: 10 ( 160 with hyper-threading )
  • CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2640 v4
  • Memory: 32 GigaBytes
  • OS: Centos 7.2.1511
  • Storage: Each of the four compute nodes has four HDDs and two SSDs. The remaining four compute nodes each have one HDD and two SSDs.
  • Network: Intel® 10-Gigabit Ethernet Converged Network Adapter.
  • Distributed and Parallel File Systems: Lustre and Ceph file systems

Intel Manycore NVDIMM (56 Cores) Server

  • Cores: 56
  • Cores per Node: 28
  • Number of Thread in each Compute Node: 56
  • CPU: Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor 8280M
  • DRAM: 768 GB
  • NVMM: 1.5 TB
  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS / Fedora 30
  • Storage: Intel® D3-S4510 1.92TB

Intel Manycore (40 Cores) Server


Edge Cluster

  • Cores: 16
  • Cores per Node: 10
  • Number of Thread in each Compute Node: 32
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 Desktop Processors
  • DRAM: 32GB Per Node
  • Use: Spark Cluster(Kubernetes) for ML/Streaming Workloads

Supermicro Manycore Server


OpenSSD Platform

  • HYU Tiger3 SSD Controller: Dual 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 core, Neon DSP Co-processor for each core, 350K LCs
  • Memory: 1GByte DDR3 SDRAM, Dual QSPI Flash Memory, 1 SD Card Slot
  • Host interface: Dual PCIe Gen2 x8 End-Points (Cabled PCIe Interface), One PCIe Gen2 x8 can be configurable to RC
  • Connectivity: 1 Gigabit Ethernet Interface
  • NAND Flash Interface: 2x SO-DIMM NAND Flash Slots, 4-way NAND Flash Interface for each slot
  • Console Debug Interface: 1 USB-UART Port, 1 ARM JTAG, 1 PL JTAG, 1 Digilent USB-JTAG