CELSIUS R970

CELSIUS R970
Workstation
Fujitsu

15 Dec 2017
146399

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Product Description
Do you require the maximum in performance for simulations, analysis, rendering or High Performance Computing? Fujitsu’s CELSIUS R970 desktop workstation is designed to surpass all expectations. Achieving first-class benchmark results, this reliable, high-end dual processor desktop workstation is optimized for extremely demanding and memory intensive multi-threaded applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	S26361-D3488-A1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: V5.0.0.12 R1.2.0 for D3488-A1x (11/24/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	10 USB Ports 8 eSATA Port PCI 4 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	NVIDIA® Quadro K4200
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	TSST MZ7TY256 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HP DVDRW GUD0N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter must be increased from the default value for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. The Broadcom BCM5720 GbE adapter was used during this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 Xen kernel update 333 is required and was installed on the host during certification testing. SLES 12 kernel update 333 was installed on the SLES 12 FV guest, the SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10103 was installed on SLES 11 SP3 x86_64 FV guest. 64-bit guests were tested with a maximum memory configuration of 64GB.

Referenced Bulletins
142828

Adapters and Drivers


NVIDIA® Quadro K4200
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: nouveau.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 2466255
	Checksum: 2399996f4312220b736e6c2517b4ce72

Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 356223
	Checksum: a9ef182572c767dbda6b901513d6c487
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 72591
	Checksum: 3469a12a768d6bacc7a451a8ac50c8e7
	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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Strasse 8
München 80807
GERMANY

569327

CELSIUS R970 - Yes Bulletin 146399 | SUSE