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• 8 x 16GB RDIMM, 2133MT/s, Dual Rank
• 200GB Solid State Drive uSATA Mix Use Slim MLC 6Gbps 1.8inHot-plug Drive
• Interconnect: Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR Mezzanine adapter
• iDRAC8 Enterprise
2.1.4 Common Internet File System (CIFS) gateway Configuration
A Dell PowerEdge R430 is used as the CIFS gateway for transferring data generated by the next generation
sequencing machines into the storage. The configuration for CIFS gateway is provided below:
• PowerEdge R430 Server, 2-Socket server with Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors
• 6 x 8GB RDIMM, 2400 MT/s, Dual Rank
- DDR4 DIMMs at up to 2400MT/s
- 12 DIMM slots: 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB
• RAID 1 for H330/H730/H730P (2 HDDs or SSDs)
• PERC H730 Integrated RAID Controller, 1GB Cache
• 2 x 500GB 7.2K RPM NLSAS 6Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive,3.5inHYB CARR,13G
• Intel Ethernet X540 DP 10GBASE-T Server Adapter, Low Profile
• iDRAC8, Basic
• DVD+/-RW SATA Internal for 4HD Chassis
2.1.5 Fat Node Configuration
A fat node is a node with a large memory. Power Edge R930 is offered as an optional fat node with up to 3TB
of memory. All the features benefit de novo genome sequence assemblies like Velvet. The size of the data on
these applications operate is massive. Hosting this data in memory with 64 cores eliminates the overhead
caused by interconnects, disk look-ups, and swapping, resulting in a speedup in time-to-results.
• Power Edge R930, 4-Socket server with Intel Xeon E7-8890 v4 processors.
• 96 DIMM slots, DDR4 memory
• 8GB/16GB/32/64GB DDR4 up to 2400MT/s, maximum 6 TB
• Up to 24 x 2.5” hot-plug 12Gb/6Gb SAS HDD or SAS/SATA SSD
• Up to 8 front-accessible Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD
• PCI Express Generation 3 slots.
• iDRAC8, Enterprise with OpenManage Essentials.
2.1.6 Accelerator Node Configuration
Accelerators are used to speed up computationally intensive applications such as Amber, HOOMD-blue and
NAMD for molecular dynamics simulations. PowerEdge C4130 offers five different NVIDIA GPU
configurations.
PowerEdge C4130 - 1U - Up to 4 accelerators per node
• PowerEdge C4130, 2-socket server with Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 processors
• 8 x 16GB RDIMM, 2400MT/s, Dual Rank
- 16 DIMM slots, DDR4 Memory