AI Computing Facility

Description

The University of Southampton requires 4 R760xa systems and as many Nvidia L4 GPUs as possible with servers meeting the following specification. There must be a maximum of 8 GPUs per server.
• CPU - Minimum of 12 threads per GPU, either Intel or AMD with minimum clock speeds of 2 Ghz normal, 3 Ghz boost
• RAM - 10GB per thread
• 800GB Minimum Solid State Fault Tolerant storage for OS, RAID 1.
• 7.68TB Minimum Read Intensive NVMe storage for local dataset storage
• Backplane - PCIe version 4 or above
• Redundant power supplies
• Remote server management that must include KVM over IP with console redirection and control.
• 1x Infiniband Mellanox ConnectX-6 Single Port HDR
• 1x 25GBase-T NIC for login traffic
• 1x 1Gbe NIC for management traffic
• Keep your own disk
• 5 Year next business day onsite warranty
• 1x 5m 25gbs Twinax cable for each server

The system must be compatible with the 3 existing R760xa systems the University already has.

A 5 year warranty period must be included.