What’s the plan now?
We plan on continuing validation of new Gen 2 hardware configurations and publishing the results. Many factors influence how we proceed, e.g., community input on hardware configurations/manufacturers, price, availability.
What We Are Asking The Community
Please comment on and prioritize next hardware choices (abbreviated specs):
- Dell PowerEdge
- 2x AMD EPYC 7343 3.2GHz, 16C/32T, 128M Cache (190W) DDR4- 3200
- 16x 32GB RDIMM, 3200MT/s, Dual Rank 16Gb (BASE x8)
- 5x 6.4TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier
- Swiss price: 27’159.09 CHF
- USA price: $26,460.32 USD
- HPE Proliant
- 2x AMD EPYC 7343 3.2GHz 16-core 190W Processor for HPE
- 16x HPE 32GB Dual Rank x4 DDR4-3200 CAS-22-22-22 Registered Smart Memory Kit
- 5x HPE 6.4TB NVMe Gen4 Mainstream Performance Mixed Use SFF BC U.3 Static Multi Vendor SSD
- Swiss price: 27’031.83 CHF
- Lenovo
- 2 x ThinkSystem AMD EPYC 7343 16C 190W 3.2GHz Processor
- 16 x ThinkSystem 32GB TruDDR4 3200MHz (2Rx4 1.2V) RDIMM-A
- 5 x ThinkSystem U.3 Kioxia CM6-V 6.4TB Mainstream NVMe PCIe4.0 x4 Hot Swap SSD
- Swiss price: 30’534.27 CHF
- USA price: $28,525.54 USD
Note: Prices are provided as rough examples and don’t include tax. USA prices are provided for comparison - the hardware will be validated in Switzerland. Example quotes and BOM’s for these hardware configurations are available on request.
Having instances of identical hardware as node providers has an additional benefit: if node providers face problems, the DFINITY engineering team can reproduce and debug independently on an identical environment. This must be done without access to node provider owned machines.