About Our Customer
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology (ANSTO)
is one Australia’s leading public research organisations,
utilising nuclear science and technologies as a solution for
complex challenges and to deliver benefits to the health of humans,
environment and industry. With a focus in research
and development (R&D), the organisation handles advanced technology
for the examination of molecular and atomic details.
As a by-product, the organisation produces and stores large amounts of data
that require high performance infrastructure.
DiGiCOR worked with the Scientific Computing Specialist at ANSTO,
where on the organisation’s behalf, proposed
the Greenfield project to DiGiCOR.
In collaboration with our network of vendors and partners,
we were able to negotiate and create a stream-lined solution
that first and foremost satisfied all their technical,
budgetary and reliability requirements and expectations.
Highlights
Key Benefits
Challenges
TANSTO required a full turnkey solution that could operate their newly adopted science instruments related to their Greenfield project during the growth period of the Synchrotron.
This type of project required general high performance compute and storage to handle:
In addition to the entire project, Bosworth and the research organisation had a clear set of technical specifications and budgetary limitations comparable with other vendors in the market.
How We Helped
We worked closely with Bosworth and affiliate ANSTO project members, bringing our network of vendors into the conversation to provide a solution that not only satisfied the organisation’s challenges and needs, but provided better offerings in the landscape of competition.
This solution was highlighted through the progressive relationship from years of reliable and effective solutions and services with ANSTO. As a result, allowing us to better understand the fundamental challenges and needs of this project, educate the organisation based on the latest cutting-edge technologies and communicate our best simplified and vertically integrated solution options.
To meet ANSTO’s technical and budgetary specifications, we proposed an All-Flash NVMe-focused Turnkey solution based on the:
• Intel Server R2000WF Family (Formerly Wolf Pass)
The purpose of (3) Intel 2U R2224WFTZSR server systems powered by Intel Xeon Scalable in this project is to establish high performance storage in running the required virtual machines, and performing cache analysis
• Supermicro Back-up Server
The purpose of the Supermicro 1U SuperServer 1114S-WTRT powered by AMD EPYC in this project is to deliver fast and efficient data transfers for the backing up of scientific data
• Seagate JBOD
The purpose of the Seagate 4U J12C6XA16900DA JBOD with 1.69PB 106 bays in this project is to effectively and speedily handle live scientific data capture with bursts of data and analyse the data within a HPC system.
Featured Solution: Short Depth
Intel R2224WFTZSR(MCT Storage server: 24x 8TB NVMe)
Barebone:
- 2U, Spread Core Rack supporting dual Socket P 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
- up to 7.5 TB DDR4 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM 2133/2400/2666/2933 & Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Supported
- 1x PCI-E x4 Gen 3, 3x PCIe x8 Gen 3, 2x PCIe x16 Gen 3
- 24x Hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 drive bays, 2x M.2 SSD
- Integrated IPMI 2.0 and Redfish
- 3x 1GbE (mgmt port) + Dual Port RJ45 10GbE
- 1300W Redundant Power Supplies
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon SILVER 4215R Processor 8-core, 16 thread, 3.2 GHz 11MB Cache (130W)
- RAM: 192GB 2933 MHz ECC RDIMM
- Storage: 24x Intel® P4510 (8TB NVMe 2.5inch)
- Networking: Intel® XXV710-DA2 25GbE SFP28
- Warranty: 5y Intel Warranty
Featured Solution: Short Depth
Intel R2224WFTZSR(IMBL Storage server: 12x 8TB NVMe)
Barebone:
- 2U, Spread Core Rack supporting dual Socket P 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
- Up to 7.5 TB DDR4 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM 2133/2400/2666/2933 & Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Supported
- 1x PCI-E x4 Gen 3, 3x PCIe x8 Gen 3, 2x PCIe x16 Gen 3
- 24x Hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 drive bays, 2x M.2 SSD
- Integrated IPMI 2.0 and Redfish
- 3x 1GbE (mgmt port) + Dual Port RJ45 10GbE
- 1300W Redundant Power Supplies
- CPU:2x Inter Xeon SILVER 4215R Processor 8-core,16 thread, 3.5GHz 11MB Cache(130W)
- RAM: 192GB 2933 MHz ECC RDIMM
- Storage: 12x Intel® P4510 (8TB NVMe 2.5inch)
- Networking: Intel® XXV710-DA2 25GbE SFP28
- Warranty: 5y Intel Warranty
Featured Solution: Short Depth
Intel R2224WFTZSR(Spectroscopy Storage server: 4x 8TB NVMe)
Barebone:
- 2U, Spread Core Rack supporting dual Socket P 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
- Up to 7.5 TB DDR4 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM 2133/2400/2666/2933 & Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Supported
- 1x PCI-E x4 Gen 3, 3x PCIe x8 Gen 3, 2x PCIe x16 Gen 3
- 24x Hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 drive bays, 2x M.2 SSD
- Integrated IPMI 2.0 and Redfish
- 3x 1GbE (mgmt port) + Dual Port RJ45 10GbE
- 1300W Redundant Power Supplies
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon SILVER 4215R Processor 8-core, 16 thread, 3.2 GHz 11MB Cache (130W)
- RAM: 192GB 2933 MHz ECC RDIMM
- Storage: 4x Intel® P4510 (8TB NVMe 2.5inch)
- Networking: Intel® XXV710-DA2 25GbE SFP28
- Warranty: 5y Intel Warranty
Featured Solution: Short Depth
Supermicro SuperServer 1114S-WTRT(Backup Server)
Barebone:
- 1U Server supporting Single AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processor
- Up to 2TB 3DS ECC DDR4-3200MHz RDIMM/LRDIMM
- 2x PCI-E 4.0 x16 (FHFL) slot, 1x PCI-E 4.0 x16 (LP) slot
- 10x Hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 drive bays, Optional 2 U.2 NVMe (PCI-E 3.0) drive support via additional kit for NVMe devices
- Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN
- 2x 10GBase-T LAN ports via Broadcom BCM57416 Controller
- 500W Redundant Power Supplies Platinum Level High-efficiency
- CPU:1x AMD EPYC 7302P Processor 16-core 3.00GHz 128MB Cache (155W)
- RAM: 256GB 3200 MHz ECC RDIMM
- O.S.Drive: 2x Intel S4510 240GB
- Networking: Intel® XXV710-DA2 25GbE SFP28
- Warranty: 5y RTB
Featured Solution: Short Depth
Seagate J12C6XA16900DA(106 Bay JBOD)
Results
TBeing able to bring our trusted partners and vendors into discussion with the situation and competition landscape ANSTO provided mant advantages against competitiors in terms of pricing advantages and services.
As a result,we were able to provide better alternatives solutions and options that shifted away from the initial proposed solution from ANSTO towards a solution that was more cost-effective and also highly reliable. In addition to all parts being integarted, finely tuned, and bunding Intel,Supermicro and Seagate as a stream-lined solution.
Due to the nature of the Greenfield project,satisfying the project objective of establishing high storage for virtual mechines,analysis and data capture was simple as a result of the tight collaboration between our expert tearm of presales, sales and vendors . In addition to the solution meeting impact and performance expestations of ANSTO, stated by Bosworth.
Overall in the approach, Bosworth provided positive feedbacks throughout the engagement phase between DiGiCOR and ANSTO as we provided “interesting” solutions and options of what ANSTO required. This is complemented by the speed and effectiveness of providing a solution the problem. In addition to the regular updates of delivery and expected time frames.