ambrosia

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In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (/æmˈbroʊziə, -ʒə/) is the food or drink of the Greek gods, and is often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it.

Ambrosia is a IO heavy machine providing large storage, GPU's & high frequency CPU cores for whoever wishes to consume it! 

It is also a heavily modified Xserve RAID machine with custom PCB's for making IO status lights and drive caddies fully working. Check out the xserver project pages.

Hardware

TypeModelBrandAttributeLink
CPU E5-2680 v4Intel14 cores, 28 threads 2.4 GHz

Motherboard

X10SRL-FSupermicro

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MemoryM393A2G40DB0-CPB HynixDDR4 2133 MHz 16 GB
Networking SFP MT27500MellanoxConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT

 

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SSD NVMe A2000Kingston1000 GB
GPUGP106GL - Quadro P2000 Nvidia1076-1480 MHz, 5 GB GDDR5, 140 GB/s, 1024 CUDA Cores
GPURX 580 - Polaris 20 XTXAMD1257-1340 MHz, 8 GB GDDR5, 256 GB/samd.com

Hard drives

VendorModelFamilySerialCapacityCacheRPMHeliumHost deviceVirtual deviceHours
Wester DigitalWD80EFZX-68UW8N0RedVK1DTL8Y8 TB128 MB5400TRUE/dev/sdhscsi457 108
Wester DigitalWD80EFZX-68UW8N0RedVK1EYPWY8 TB128 MB5400TRUE/dev/sdbscsi557 102
Wester DigitalWD80EZAZ-11TDBA0Ultrastar7SJ5GZEW8 TB256 MB5400TRUE/dev/sddscsi834 778
Western DigitalWD80EFAX-68KNBN0RedVGJL4K4G8 TB256 MB5400FALSE/dev/sdfscsi326 428
Wester DigitalWD80EDBZ-11B0ZA0-VRJJ2LSN8 TB-7200FALSE/dev/sdescsi217 000
Wester DigitalWD80EDBZ-11B0ZA0-VRH33HYK8 TB-7200FALSE/dev/sdcscsi914 917
Wester DigitalWD80EDAZ-11TA3A0-VGKYZGSG8 TB-5400FALSE/dev/sdascsi614 102
Wester DigitalWD80EDBZ-11B0ZA0-VR1B80SK8 TB-7200FALSE/dev/sdgscsi1011 081

Xserve

This server is built into a piece of Apple history, bringing new upgradable hardware to the steel cabinet using custom PCB's to re-enable front IO and drive caddie functionality. Check out the linked project pages above. 

View user guide: XserveRAID_UserGuide.PDF 

History

The Xserve was a series of rack-mounted servers manufactured by Apple Inc. between 2002 and 2011. It was Apple's first rack-mounted server,[1] and could function as a file server, web server or run high-performance computing applications in clusters.

Xserve RAID held up to 14 hot-swappable Ultra-ATA hard drives, and had a capacity of 10.5 TB when filled with 750 GB modules. Xserve RAID supported RAID levels of 0, 0+1, 1, 3 and 5 in hardware, hybrid RAID levels such as 10 and 50 could be created in software.[1] It was rack-mountable and was 3U high.[1]

Although the Xserve RAID contained 14 drives, they were split into two independent groups of 7 drives each managed by an identical RAID controller. Importantly, the controllers were independent, but not redundant; each managed seven of the storage array's fourteen drives, given a failure of one of the controllers those 7 drives were not accessible: the other could not take over its duties. Xserve RAID did, however, have redundant cooling units and power supplies. Xserve RAID's ports were two Fibre Channel ports for regular data transfer, a 10/100Ethernet port for remote management, and a serial port for UPS communication via the Simple Signaling Protocol.

Xserve RAID was available in models costing between US$5,999 and US$10,999[2][3] (later US$12,999),[4][5] plus configuration and support options.

The Xserve RAID was discontinued on February 19, 2008.[6]

References

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ChasisXserve RAID
Born3 March 2020
Bought at2 500 NOK
Total CPUs

14, 28 threads

Total RAM64 GB
HDD Capacity64 TB