Linuxfriendly

Linux friendly shall be built using commodity hardware with enterprise components. Dell, HP and Supermicro all deliver basic servers without too much hassle.

for more information see: hardware design

Servers are to have at least the following hardware (or better):

• 2 CPU with 16 threads each
• 32 GB Ram ECC
• 3 TB Harddisk room in a raid-5 configuration

See for more information: Server specs

Controllers have at least the following hardware on board:

• 2 Xeon CPU with 16 threads
• 64GB Ram
• 3 TB Harddrive space with 4 drives operating in raid-5 mode.
• 4 network cards
• Remote console

Compute nodes have at least the following hardware on board:

• 2 Xeon CPU with 32 threads
• 256GB Ram
• 6 TB Harddrive space with 4 drives operating in raid-5 mode.
• 4 network cards
• Remote console

Storage nodes have at least the following hardware on board:

• 2 Xeon CPU with 16 threads
• 32GB Ram
• 60TB Harddrive space able to operate in raid-5 mode.
• 6 network cards, of which 2 are dedicated to the storage and 2 to the backup networks.
• Remote console