HPE Cray Supercomputing XD224 NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip 3.1GHz 144 Cores

HPE Cray Supercomputing XD224 NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip 3.1GHz 144 Cores
Network Server
IBM

19 Sep 2024
153496

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for Arm
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	XD224
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 25.01 (06/13/2024)
CPU:	NVIDIA® Grace™ CPU Superchip 240GB Processor 3.1 GHz
RAM:	240 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Samsung devices
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Samsung® PM9A3 1.92TB NVMe Gen4 MP Read Intensive M.2 SSD 2 Samsung® PM1743, 7.68TB, U.2, NVMe (MZWLO7T6HBLA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.0.0-150500.103.1

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter (82572EI GB Ethernet Controller), was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 23-Sep-2023	Driver Size: 50860
	Checksum: be99cdd816c26a631033628a9d490a00

Intel X550T 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 23-Sep-2023	Driver Size: 281293
	Checksum: 93a48adbb40ea2e6dbe3276aef1fc93b

Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Samsung devices
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 23-Sep-2023	Driver Size: 39281
	Checksum: f9939dca44094aa726f96ed904cc5cbc
	Driver Version: 1.0

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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558800

HPE Cray Supercomputing XD224 NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip 3.1GHz 144 Cores - Yes Bulletin 153496 | SUSE