Server Donation Program

SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Description:	Broadcom donations
Service link:	http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/catalog/datacenter/serverdonation/terms
For:	department
Charges:	no charge
Contact:

IST has received the second in a series of server donations from Broadcom Corporation. These servers are currently available to campus departments.*

The donation consists of approximately 300 three- to four year old Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron compute servers. These servers are rack-mountable "2U" devices with no operating system, displays or other peripherals. Specifications for both types of servers include 2 NICs, IPMI and PXE booting support, and one disk 32GB or larger:

• AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 248, 2.2GHz, 64-bit, 2 single-core processors , max 230W under load
• Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz, 32-bit, dual-core processor, max 200W under load

These servers may be used for any of the following purposes:

• CalHPC (high performance computing service)
• Colocation in the Data Center
• Local use

To request these servers, read the terms and conditions and click on the link at the bottom of the page to fill out the online request form.

*All orders are processed on a first come, first served basis, and if the requested type of server is not available, the customer will have the option to change their request.