IST has received the second in a series of server donations from Broadcom Corporation. These servers are currently available to campus departments.
The donation consists of approximately 300 three- to four-year old Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron compute servers. These servers are rack-mountable "2U" devices with no operating system, displays, or other peripherals. Specifications for both types of servers include 2 NICs, IPMI and PXE booting support, and one disk 32GB or larger:
- AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 248, 2.2GHz, 64-bit, 2 single-core processors , max 230W under load
- Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz, 32-bit, dual-core processor, max 200W under load
These servers may be used for any of the following purposes:
- CalHPC (high performance computing service)
- Colocation in the Data Center
- Local use
To request these servers, read the terms and conditions and click on the link at the bottom of the page to fill out the online request form.
If you have questions about the Broadcom donation or the request process, contact or assistance.