Infrastructure

The following is a summary of the Engineering Computing Resources available college-wide. In addition, we also share computing capacity with the university High Performance Cluster (http://hpc.fau.edu) and whose capacity is updated at http://hpc.fau.edu/resources-2/koko/.

The college infrastructure is almost completely virtualized (except for the HPC servers) in order to provide a highly optimized utilization of compute, memory and storage. Access to all resources are provided using a virtualized desktop infrastructure powered by VMWare and Citrix allowing our students, faculty and staff to login both on and off campus.

Network Infrastructure

• 2 x Cisco 6510 10 Gbe Network Switches
• 4 x Brocade VNX  48 Port 10 Gbe Switches
• 1 x Cisco Nexus 7000 Series 10 Gbe Swiches

Virtual Server Infrastructure (Private Cloud) 

• 8 x HP BL460c G7 Servers – 256 GB RAM, 2 x Intel Xeon 2.5 Ghz CPU
• 2 x Dell R825 Servers – 512 GB RAM, 4 x 12 Core AMD Opteron CPU
• 1 x Dell R720  Server – 384 GB RAM, 2 x 8 Core Intel Xeon CPU

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Private Cloud) 

• 12 x Dell R430 Servers – 384 GB RAM, 2 x Intel Xeon CPUs
• 2 x Dell e740 Servers – 384 GB RAM, 2 x Intel Xeon CPUs, 2 x NVIDIA T4 GPUs
• 12 x Dell R720 Servers – 256 GB RAM, 2 x Intel Xeon CPUs, 2 x NVIDIA K1 GPUs, 1 x Teradici Accelerator
• 4 x Dell R730 Servers – 256 GB RAM, 2 x Intel Xeon CPUs, 1 x NVIDIA K1 GPU, 1 x Teradici Accelerator

Network Storage Infrastructure (Private Cloud) 

• 2 x HP Compelent Storage Cluster (25 TB SSD Total Capacity)
• 2 x Coho DataStream Storage Nodes  +  2 x Arista Networks SDN Switch (70 TB Total Capacity)
• 2 x Synology NFS Storage Nodes (24 TB SSD Total Capacity)
• Tyan NVMe All Flash Storage Node (12 TB NVMe Flash Total Capacity)
• 2 x Dell R620 + Dell MD3060e Nodes  (192 TB Total Capacity)
• 2 x DELL NX3230 Storage Nodes (180 TB Total Capacity)
• 2 x Netapp F240c Storage Node (4 TB Total Capacity)