Equipment

Servers

Servers rack comprised of a set of 5 2U Twin Motherboard Supermicro servers.

2U Twin Servers Qty 12 (48 motherboards)
 
Specification Per Motherboard
 Processor Dual Processor Xeon E5630 Quad-Core
 RAM 24GB
 Hard Disks  3 x 2TB SATA-II
 NIC Myricom/Mellanox 10GE SFP+

Storage Servers

NexSan SataBeasts Disk arrays each equipped with 228 1TB disks were connected with the SuperMicro servers through QLogic FC-8 cards. Each SataBeast controller delivered roughly 3Gbps I/O, a total of 6Gbps per unit.

SataBeast Qty 5
 
Specifications
 Disks 28 x 1TB
 Controllers 2 x FC-8 with 2GB Cache per controller, configured in RAID-0

Networking Equipment

 Cisco Nexus 7010 Switch Qty 1
  1 x 32port M Series, 2 x 32Port F1 series 10GE Card
 1 x 48 port 1GE Card
 Cisco 3560-E Qty 1
Force10 E600i ExaScale Switch Qty 1
 5 x 10GE 10 port line cards
 Force10 S50n Switch Qty 2
 DYNES  Equipment 
 Dell 8024F Switch Qty 1, 24 10GE ports
 Dell R510 Server Qty 1, 12 x 600GB SAS Disks with Intel X25 Dual port 10GE Card
 IDC Controller Qty 1, Intel server
 40GE Demo 
 Force10 4810 Switch Qty 1, 44 x 10GE SFP+ + 4 x 40GE QSFP ports
 Servers Qty 2, SuperMicro 6016XT-TF, 24GB RAM
 NIC 4 x Mellanox ConnectX-2 40GE NICs
 Miscellaneous 
  
 Rack 2 x 42U
 FO PatchPanel 1