IST has received a large donation of servers from Broadcom Corporation and is making these servers available to campus departments beginning March 31, 2009.
The donation consists of approximately 400 three- to four-year-old IntelXeon and AMD Opteron compute servers. These servers are rack-mountable"2U" devices with no operating system, displays, or other peripherals,and have minimal disk drives. Specifications are as follows:
- AMD Opteron Processor 248, 2.2GHz, 64-bit, 2 single-core processors, max 230W under load
- Intel Xeon 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 campus data center
- Local use
To find out more, attend the presentation about this program on April 15, 2009, at 2:00 pm in 60 Barrows.
To request these servers, read the terms and conditions and fill out the online form available at http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/catalog/datacenter/serverdonation/form.
If you have questions about the Broadcom donation or the request process, contact for assistance.