DRAFT Motion Proposal: New Hardware specification and remuneration for IC nodes

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We have executed the validation plan described previously on two ASUS machines. These meet the generic Gen 2 hardware specifications as specified earlier in this thread. Some abbreviated specs:

  • 2x AMD EPYC 7313 (3,00 GHz, 16-Core, 128 MB)
  • 512 GB (16x 32GB) ECC Reg ATP DDR4 3200 RAM
  • 32TB (5x 6,4TB) NVMe Kioxia SSD 3D-NAND TLC U.3 (Kioxia CM6-V)
  • Swiss price: 21’595.75 CHF

Validation results:

  • Low Level

    • Stress tests (using stress-ng) - increase confidence in the hardware configuration and these specific machine instances - Passed :white_check_mark:
    • System benchmarks (using sysbench) - Gauge performance against known Gen 1 node performance - Passed :white_check_mark:
      • About 2x performance increase for cpu and memory.
      • Disk performance ranges from equally good to better for the majority of tests
    • SEV-SNP capability - Verified BIOS and kernel support working in tandem - Pending :construction:

  • High Level

    • Method: deploy machines into subnets and ensure subnet metrics do not deviate negatively by a meaningful threshold
    • Low usage subnet deployment. Scalability benchmarks (system baseline and large memory)
      • All metrics nominal - Passed :white_check_mark:
    • High usage subnet deployment
      • All metrics nominal, except
        • Individual node checkpointing performance discrepancy of <3-6%.
          This has no impact on subnet performance, but we’re still keeping an eye on it.
      • Passed :white_check_mark:

We have updated the node provider hardware wiki to include this ASUS server configuration. An example ASUS quote and bill of materials (BOM) is available for interested community members.

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