We have High Performace Computing (HPC) cluster I’d like to show. It has 72 cores and 152GB of RAM in total. We use ROCKS as cluster middleware. Interconnect is DDR InfiniBand.
We have two groups of servers. First group is two BL2x220c blades. Since they are double-sided it’s actually four servers. Each with two 4-core CPUs and 16GB of RAM. Second group consists of five BL280c. Each of them also has two 4-core CPUs but 24 GB of RAM. Eighth server is BL260c. This blade serves as master server.
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BL280c blade server. This dude has 8 Xeon cores and 24GB of RAM.
Every component of HP BladeSystem c3000 is hot-swappable. Here I show how I disconnect Onboard Adminstrator on fully operational system.
Fans, power supplies and all interconnects are on the back.
Here is the 16-port DDR InfiniBand switch. Each port’s throughput is 80GB/s FDX.
Uplink ports for Onboard Administrator.
16 ports of Ethernet pass-through for blade servers.
Six power supplies in N+1 redundant configuration. Each is capable of 1200 Watts. 7200 Watts in total.
Inside blade server.
InfiniBand mezzanine. One such module is capable of 80Gb/s FDX.
If you are interested in benchmarking results find them here for pure IB and here for IBoIP.
Tags: BL260c, bl280c, BL2x220c, blade, BladeSystem, c3000, cluster, ddr, high performance computing, hot-swap, HP, HPC, IB, InfiniBand, interconnect, mezzanine, Onboard Administrator, ROCKS, server, xeon
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November 1, 2011 at 7:15 pm |
Hello, Please advice, I also BLc3000, but without Onboard Adminstrator panel. If I turn on the server will not start. On servers, the Power LED light is amber, the health LED is flashing red. It’s because there is no Onboard Adminstrator panel? Thanks for the advice.
November 2, 2011 at 11:44 am |
How come you don’t have OA? It’s weird but I’m very much sure it’s impossible to run c3000 without it.