HPC-4U

HPC-4U System

» Specification

  • Chassis
    • 4U rackable form factor
    • Dimensions: 7" x 19" x 29.3"
    • Weight: 70 lbs (varies with number of add-on boards)
  • System board
    • Dual Intel® Xeon® L5410
    • Quad core LV @ 2.33 GHz; FSB 1333; 12 MB L2 cache
    • 8GB DDR2-667/533 Fully-Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM)
  • Interfaces
    • Front: 2x USB, 1x LCD, 1x custom keyboard
    • Rear: 2x USB, 2x GBE, 1x VGA, 1x GBE for system monitoring
      • 1x 10GBE XFP upon request
  • Storage
    • 2x removable SATA 2.5" HDD tray
    • 1x internal 256GB SSD HDD for Operating System (Linux)
  • Backplane
    • 8x electrically connected PCIe Gen1 x4 slots
      • x8 Gen1 available upon request
      • Gen2 backplane available Q3 2011
  • Power supply (not redundant)
    • 110V/220V (50/60Hz) – 1200W

» FPGA accelerator cards

The HPC-4U can host up to 4 TRETO boards and up to 2 MEMO boards, interconnected together through high-speed SerialLiteII links. The system's custom power management unit provides staggered power to each board and controls the BIOS enumeration process to ensure smooth detection of each FPGA board.

» Deliverables

  • HPC-4U system with Linux 64-bit installed
  • 4x MEMO + 2x TRETO boards, or any other configuration of MEMO/TRETO as supported in the chassis
    • As many SerialLiteII cables requiredfor board to board connection
  • Test & configuration software
    • Enables FPGA configuration Flash programming over PCIe
    • Enables user FPGA programming over PCIe (TRETO board)
    • Enables FPGA boards monitoring (temperature, voltage) and functional testing
  • Monitoring Web server application
    • Enables remote boards supervision (temperature, voltage)