BSDCan2015 - ZI
BSDCan 2015
The Technical BSD Conference
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Daichi GOTO |
| Schedule | |
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| Day | Talks #2 - 13 June - 2015-06-13 |
| Room | DMS 1140 |
| Start time | 13:30 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 568 |
| Track | System Administration |
| Language used for presentation | English |
FreeBSD for High Density Servers
Hw to setup and control for Avoton based 5,000+ cores MicroModularServer—
To promote FreeBSD to High Performance Computing or High Density Servers under such circumstances, it is considered to be very important to share the information about how to install, how to setup, how to manage, how to patch and how to fix to work FreeBSD correctly with those machines. In this session, I am going to talk about how to install FreeBSD to MicroModularServer and how to manage and control those servers. To install FreeBSD to High Density Servers including NEC MicroModularServer or HP Moonshot, you need another skill compared to install to common PCs and rack mount servers. This kind of servers (low energy consumption, low computing power and high space efficient) are good for too many edge servers/web servers at limited rack space, for example, as an alternative system for Blade servers or many cores servers like Sun Fire T1000/T2000.
Nowadays, FreeBSD is widely used as critical technologies software from data centers, storage servers, edge servers, feature-rich network appliances, embedded devices, home electric appliances, game consoles to various other places. In these circumstances, High Performance Computing and High Density Servers including OpenStack and Hadoop remain low compared to the other places as FreeBSD platform. One of the main reasons for such circumstances is the fact that no vendors support for FreeBSD and its hight-priced devices. Price of commonly-used High Density Servers are from 100 thousands dollars to 300 thousands dollars per a logic board that is too expensive for most open source developers to buy on an individual basis.
NEC, one of leading provider and integrator of IT, communications, network managed services and multimodal biometric solutions, released their latest Intel’s Avoton C2750/C2730 based High Density Server “NEC Express/5800 MicroModularServer” last year. MicroModularServer could scale to 5,376 cores per a rack, 21TB memory per a rack, 86TB SSD per a rack and 3,360Gbps network traffic per a rack. That has good energy consumption, space requirements and cost merits compared to existing other similar products. To make MicroModularServer as a FreeBSD platform is a good first step to becoming more common operating system of High Density Servers.
In this session, I am going to talk about how to install FreeBSD to MicroModularServer and how to manage and control those servers. To install FreeBSD to High Density Servers including NEC MicroModularServer or HP Moonshot, you need another skill compared to install to common PCs and rack mount servers. This kind of servers (low energy consumption, low computing power and high space efficient) are good for too many edge servers/web servers at limited rack space, for example, as an alternative system for Blade servers or many cores servers like Sun Fire T1000/T2000.