SGI® Rackable® C1102-GP8

SGI® Rackable® C1102-GP8
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Jan 2017
145291

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port. The two integrated BCM5718 dual-port network adapters are sold as a single Lenovo Flex System EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=167M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 105903
	Checksum: fa330b167f8c09c2d71c4e89b516b418

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 14-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: d8354d50377cbbdc635b0a299a0f5d38
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 628983
	Checksum: 917601927ed3ac76295bd6a5c5521679

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 351071
	Checksum: b8dee794a1123732c7ba8475033703e3
	Driver Version: 5.3.0-k

Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 72895
	Checksum: f0ad0f11072e317bc80570a7483343e9
	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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