Triple Crown

High performance build and compute servers

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
Pharoah	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.