CS-Storm 500NX 1U Description

CS-Storm 500NX 1U server overview and features.

The CS-Storm 500NX 1U™ server supports a 19-inch wide rackmount chassis. Each server contains two Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4 processors, 24 DIMMs (2400MHz DDR4), up to 3TB of memory. There are 16x 2.5in drive bays and up to eight NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 or V100 GPUs. Both GPU architectures use the NVIDIA NVLink™ high-speed interconnect and SXM modules.

Figure: CS-Storm 500NX 1U Server
Table 1. CS-Storm 500NX 1U Features
FeatureDescription
Chassis
  • 19-inch wide, 4U rackmounted chassis
  • Up to 12 CS-Storm 500NX 1U chassis are supported in a 48RU rack. 10 are supported in a 42RU rack.
  • Chassis weight, fully configured: approximately 135 lb (61 kg)
  • Dimensions: (WxHxD) 17.2 x 1.7 x 35.2 inches (437 x 43 x 894 mm)
GPUs
  • Up to 8 NVIDIA GPUs:

    8 P100 SXM 300W  GPUs, or

    8 Tesla V100 SXM2 400W  GPUs

  • NVLink high-speed GPU interconnect (up to 80 GB/s)
ProcessorsTwo Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 CPUs (up to 145W TDP)
Memory Capacity24 DIMM slots (Up to 3TB, ECC 3DS LRDIMM , DDR4 - 2400MHz)
Expansion slotsPCIe 3.0 slots:
  • Four x16 low-profile in the GPU tray
  • Two x8 in the motherboard tray
Network InterconnectSupport of multiple interconnects, including:
  • InfiniBand FDR/EDR
  • Gigabit Ethernet (10/40GbE)
  • Intel Omni-Path (56/100Gb/s)
Storage
  • 16 hot-swap 2.5in SATA/SAS drive bays
  • Up to 8 drives can be NVMe, and the others are SAS or SATA
  • SAS/SATA/NVMe backplane in motherboard tray
Power SuppliesFour 2200W AC power supplies (2+2 redundancy, titanium level efficiency)

Each power supply contains a cooling fan

CoolingAir cooled system
  • Eight 92mm cooling fans
  • Active processor heatsinks
  • Passive GPU heatsinks
  • Dual air shrouds in GPU tray
IO Ports

(front panel)

  • 2 LAN ports, 1GbE, RJ45
  • 1 dedicated IPMI LAN port, RJ45
  • 2 USB 3.0 ports
  • 1 VGA connector

Operating Environment

Operating Temperature:10º to 35º C (50º to 95º F)
Non-operating Temperature:-40º to 70º C (-40º to 158º F)
Operating Relative Humidity:8% to 90% (non-condensing)
Non-operating Relative Humidity:5 to 95% (non-condensing)