SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_ai_image Result
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| Super Micro Computer | SPECstorage Solution 2020_ai_image = 40 AI_Jobs |
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| SYS-220U-TNR with 22 NVMe Storage Node | Overall Response Time = 0.58 msec |
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| SYS-220U-TNR with 22 NVMe Storage Node | |
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| Tested by | Super Micro Computer | Hardware Available | Apr 6 2021 | Software Available | Mar 2021 | Date Tested | Mar 2021 | License Number | 91 | Licensee Locations | San Jose, CA, USA |
The SYS-220U-TNR is the new generation of all-flash SuperServer deliver a massive improvement in storage performance over systems based on traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) using legacy storage interfaces including SAS3 and SATA3. The new servers are also more power efficient than the traditional systems and have hot-plug capability for improved serviceability and availability.
| Item No | Qty | Type | Vendor | Model/Name | Description |
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| 1 | 1 | Storage | Super Micro Computer | SYS-220U-TNR | The current SYS-220U-TNR is - 2 Intel Xeon 40 core processor, total 1 TiB memory, and dual socket MB - using NFSv4 protocol over a 100 GbE. SYS-220U-TNR server provides IO/s from 2 file systems. The SYS-220U-TNR server uses a dual socket processor, full 22 PCIe Gen4 SSD. SYS-220U-TNR is running RHEL8.3 on SATA SSD using NFSv4 and 1 100GbE Ethernet networking. |
| 2 | 1 | 100Gbit, 10Gbit or 25Gbit | NVIDIA (Mellanox) | MSN2410-CB2R | The NVIDIA(Mellanox) Networking SN2410 provides the most predictable, highest performance 100GbE ToR switching platform for the growing demands of today’s data centers. The SN2410 switch is an ideal top-of-rack (ToR) solution, allowing maximum flexibility, with port speeds spanning from 10Gb/s to 100Gb/s per port. Its optimized port configuration enables high-speed rack connectivity to any server at 10GbE or 25GbE speeds. |
| 3 | 8 | Clients | Super Micro Computer | SYS-620BT-HNC8R | A single 2U SYS-620BT-HNC8R is supporting 4 nodes. In each node, there are 2 Intel Xeon 36 core processors, total 64GB memory, and dual socket MB. The Supermicro® Super I/O Module (SIOM) delivers up to 50% of I/O cost savings and freedom to select networking options from 1Gb/s to100Gb/s through a Supermicro optimized form factor that is easy to scale, service and manage across a broad range of Supermicro server and storage systems. The SIOM also enables a higher degree of system integration and increased capacity by saving PCI-E slots that are traditionally reserved for add on cards. With SIOM you choose your onboard I/O. |
| 4 | 1 | 100GbE HBA Card | Super Micro Computer | AOC-S100G-m2C | The Supermicro AOC-S100G-m2C provides exceptionally high performance at 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity. Utilizing the Mellanox ConnectX®-4 EN chipset with features that such as VXLAN and NVGRE, this card offers network flexibility, high bandwidth with specific hardware offload for I/O virtualization, and efficiently optimizes bandwidth demand from virtualized infrastructure in the data center or cloud deployments. The AOC-S100G-m2C supports the RoCE specification with CPU offload, delivering low-latency and high-efficiency over Ethernet networks. Supermicro® Asset Management and thermal detection provide an extra layer of controller health management and peace of mind. The Supermicro AOC-S100G-m2C is the building block of choice for the next generation of high speed Ethernet data center networks. |
| 5 | 8 | 10GbE HBA Card | Super Micro Computer | AOC-ATG-I2T2SM | The AOC-ATG-i2T2SM is one of the most flexible and scalable 4-port 10Gb network solutions in the market. Based on the Intel® X710-TM4 controller, it is designed to support a mixed network interface 2x RJ45 and 2x SFP+ connectors, with performance-enhancing features and power management technologies. |
| 6 | 22 | SSD | SKHynix | 7.68TB NVMe SSD HFS7T6GETFEI | PCIe Gen4 NVMe installed in storage node (SYS-220U-TNR). |
| 7 | 1 | Gigabit Switch | TP-Link | TL-SG1016D | 16 port Gigabit Switch for management connectivity. |
| 8 | 2 | SSD | Micron | C400 MTFDDAC128MAM | SATA SSD installed in storage node (SYS-220U-TNR) for OS. |
| Item No | Component | Type | Name and Version | Description |
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| 1 | Prime Client | Linux | RHEL8.3 | Operating System (OS) for 1 load generator (one of the client nodes - Prime) in SYS-620BT-HNC8R |
| 2 | Storage Node | Storage OS | RHEL8.3 | Storage Operating System (SYS-220U-TNR) |
| 3 | Clients | Client OS | RHEL8.3 | Operating System (OS) for 8 clients in 2x SYS-620BT-HNC8R |
| Storage Node | Parameter Name | Value | Description |
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| Port speed | 100Gb | Internal switch port speed with default setting | Clients | Parameter Name | Value | Description |
| Port speed | 10Gb | Internal switch port speed with default setting |
Supermicro SYS-220U-TNR (AOC-S100G-m2C) 100Gb ethernet ports are setup to default MTU frames. SYS-620BT-HNC8R (AOC-ATG-I2T2S) clients is 10Gb ethernet ports are setup to default MTU frames.
| Clients | Parameter Name | Value | Description |
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| MTU | 1500 | Default MTU frames setup |
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| Item No | Description | Data Protection | Stable Storage | Qty |
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| 1 | 2x RAID-10 volumes and each volume consists of 10 drives and 1 spare drive. Total 22 drives | RAID-10 volume with hot-spare | Stable Storage | 22 |
| 2 | 1x RAID-1 volumes and OS is installed on it | RAID-1 volume | Stable Storage | 2 |
| Number of Filesystems | 2 | Total Capacity | 35TiB | Filesystem Type | xfs |
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filesystem is created with default options.
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| Item No | Transport Type | Number of Ports Used | Notes |
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| 1 | 100GbE network | 1 | Storage server connects to the 100Gb link. |
| 2 | 10GbE network | 8 | Each clients server connects to the 10Gb link |
Configured first 8 ports to 10Gb and last 2 ports to 100Gb. Only one of the 2x 100Gb ports were used.
| Item No | Switch Name | Switch Type | Total Port Count | Used Port Count | Notes |
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| 1 | MSN2410-CB2R | 100GbE and 10GbE | 56 | 9 | 8x 100GbE and 48x 10GbE ports are available. 1x 100GbE and 8x 10GbE ports are used. NVIDIA (Mellanox) SN2410 optimized port configuration enables high-speed rack connectivity to any server |
| Item No | Qty | Type | Location | Description | Processing Function |
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| 1 | 2 | CPU | File System Storage Node | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8380 CPU @ 2.30GHz, hyperthreading enabled | File System Storage Node |
| 2 | 16 | CPU | File System Client Node | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8360Y CPU @ 2.40GHz, hyperthreading enabled | Each system is dual socket and 8 clients in 2x SYS-620BT-HNC8R. |
Each node in the system (Client and Storage node) has two physical processors each. Each processor has multiple cores as mentioned int the table above.
| Description | Size in GiB | Number of Instances | Nonvolatile | Total GiB |
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| System memory in storage node | 32 | 32 | V | 1024 |
| System memory in client node | 32 | 16 | V | 512 | Grand Total Memory Gibibytes | 1536 |
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The storage node does not use write cache to store data so writes are committed to disk immediately. All data is protected in the file system by a RAID-10 volume and spare storage configuration including metadata. The entire SUT is protected with redundant power supplies, both storage node and clients. Storage node have two SATA device for OS redundancy.
The solution is a configuration by Supermicro with managing metadata for the file system. SYS-220U-TNR storage node is the new generation of all-flash SuperServer deliver a massive improvement in storage performance.
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The storage node is connected to 100Gbit ethernet switch and 8 clients are connected to 100Gbit Switch via 10Gbit. No special tuning parameters are used in the connections. The file system is created and shared from nfs server to clients. Please refer to the diagram.
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