SGI® Rackable® C1102-GP8

SGI® Rackable® C1102-GP8
Network Server
Lenovo

05 Jan 2017
145250

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The SGI® Rackable® C1102-GP8 is a purpose-built system for deep learning and AI accelerated analytics. The SGI® Rackable® C1102-GP8 supports up to four NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 accelerators with integrated NVIDIA® NVLink™ high-speed bidirectional interconnect.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	V1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.0a (12/15/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba THNS128GG4BA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

This is SAN Boot only system.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.21.4284.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.21.4284_4.4.21_69-1.sles12sp2.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled that can be allocated from LPAR is 88.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.

Referenced Bulletins
146706

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 12-May-2015	Driver Size: 14588208
	Checksum: e32ce0677419b22ed04c0a096fd98546

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 134960
	Checksum: 01ba3e8b5ba7aff90b4e5d72d1a05efe
	Driver Version: 1.0.1

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 334639
	Checksum: 9d13a78672ff61d57ef1b462ada1ae55
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 58775
	Checksum: 7a0c250f60b9ac6b9684c7be9f36b03e
	Driver Version: 3.0

The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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