# Triple Crown

These 2U servers are highly capable large memory servers, except that they have limited PCIe4 slots for expansion.

* HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus chassis
* 2 AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core Processors
  * configured with two threads per core, so presents as 256 cores
  * this can be altered per request
* 1 TB physical memory
  * 16 DDR4 Synchronous Registered (Buffered) 3200 MHz 64 GiB DIMMS
* 2 HP EG001200JWJNQ 1.2 TB SAS 10500 RPM Disks
  * one is system disk, one available for research use
* 4 MO003200KWZQQ 3.2 TB NVME storage
  * available as needed

## Usage

These servers are generally used for customized VM environments, which are often scheduled via SLURM, and for networking/DPU research.

## Status

| Node        | VM      | OS           | Status      |
| ----------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- |
| Justify     | All off | Ubuntu 22.04 | Operational |
| Pharaoh     | All off | Ubuntu 22.04 | Operational |
| Affirmed    | All off | Ubuntu 22.04 | Operational |
| Secretariat | All off | Ubuntu 22.04 | Operational |

## Affirmed

Affirmed is one of our triple crown servers (named after Triple Crown winners). These are highly capable large memory servers

It currently runs Ubuntu 22.04.

#### Specialized hardware

* BlueField-2 DPU connected to 100Gb Infiniband Network
  * Can also be connected to 10Gb ethernet network
  * used to investigate properties and usage of the NVidia BlueField-2 card (ConnectX-6 VPI with DPU).

#### Usage

These servers are generally used for customized VM environments, which are often scheduled via SLURM.

## Justify

Justify is one of our triple crown servers (named after Triple Crown winners). These are highly capable large memory servers

It currently runs Centos 7.9.

#### Usage

These servers are generally used for customized VM environments, which are often scheduled via SLURM.

## Pharaoh

Pharaoh is one of our triple crown servers (named after Triple Crown winners). These are highly capable large memory servers

It currently runs Centos 7.9.

#### Usage

These servers are generally used for customized VM environments, which are often scheduled via SLURM.

## Secretariat

Secretariat is one of our triple crown servers (named after Triple Crown winners). These are highly capable large memory servers

It currently runs Ubuntu 22.04.

#### Specialized hardware

* BlueField-2 DPU connected to 100Gb Infiniband Network
  * Can also be connected to 10Gb ethernet network
  * used to investigate properties and usage of the NVidia BlueField-2 card (ConnectX-6 VPI with DPU).

#### Usage

These servers are generally used for customized VM environments, which are often scheduled via SLURM.


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