Hardware

Virtual Wall 1

The hardware of Virtual Wall 1 consists out of:

106x pcgen2 nodes:

• 2x Quad core Intel E5520 (2.2GHz) CPU

• 12GB RAM

• 1x 160GB harddisk

• 1-5 gigabit nics per node for experimentation (+1 control connection):

  06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
  

Virtual Wall 2

The hardware of Virtual Wall 2 consists out of:

102x pcgen3 nodes:

• 2x Hexacore Intel E5645 (2.4GHz) CPU

• 24GB RAM

• 1x 250GB harddisk

• 1-7 gigabit nics per node (+1 control connection):

  06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

38x pcgen4 nodes:

• 2x 8core Intel E5-2650v2 (2.6GHz) CPU

• 48GB RAM

• 1x 250GB harddisk

• gigabit and 10gigabit connections (+1 control):

  81:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10 Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
  84:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
  

74x pcgen5 nodes:

• 1x 4 core E3-1220v3 (3.1GHz)

• 16GB RAM

• 1x 250GB harddisk

• 3 gigabit connections (+1 control connection):

  03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
  07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
  

71x pcgen6 nodes:

• 1x 6 core Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400 CPU @ 2.90GH
• 32GB RAM
• 1x 512GB NVMe
• 4-6 gigabit connections (+1 control connection):

24x gpunode2:

• 1x 8core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
• 32GB
• 250GB harddisk
• 1 or 2x Nvidia GTX1080TI

7x gpunode3:

• 1x 12core Intel Core i7-8700 (3.20GHz)
• 32GB
• 500GB SSD
• nVidia Geforce 1080 Ti

2x gpunode3-v100:

same as gpunode3 but:

• 1x nVidia Tesla V100 (32GB)

1x supernode

• 2x 6x2core Intel Xeon E5645 (2.40GHz)
• 18x 16GB = 288GB
• 1x 250GB + 1x 5TB /dev/sdb (RAID)
• 4 gigabit nics

New Virtual Wall 1 (currently under construction)

The hardware of the new Virtual Wall 1 consists out of (the above nodes of Virtual Wall 1 will be merged with these):

186x pcgen7:

• 1x 6 core Intel Core i5-9500 CPU (3.00GHz)
• 64GB
• 512GB SSD
• 1 or 5 gigabit nics (+1 control connection)