The CloudMIP platform is currently hosted in the datacenter of our university. This platform is also connected to the GridMIP platform (a powerfull network infrastructure dedicated to network experiments) and along with the Toulouse node of the Grid5000 grid infrastructure.

Below is an overview of the CloudMIP platform.

The platform consists of the following items:

1. a front-node,
2. a NFS server shared across GridMIP and Grid5000 Toulouse,
3. 32 nodes (blades) dispatched within two DELL M1000e chassis.
   

[1] Front-node
The front-node is a Dell R710 featuring 8 cores XEON@2.4GHz, 32GB DDR3 memory and two 450GB 15ktpm SAS drives in a RAID1 setup.

[2] NFS
The NFS server is a powerfull SUN x4500 featuring 48 x 1TB HDD. The setup makes use of the ZFS filesystem leading to a 18TB CloudMIP dedicated storage space with performances > 500MB/s I/O.
This server is running a Scientific Linux 6.4 distribution.

[3] Nodes
Each chassis features an embedded KVM, two redundant CMCs, 9 fans, 6 redundant power supplies and two Dell PowerConnect M6220 Gigabit Ethernet switches.

Each of the 32 nodes filling the chassis are Dell M610 blades. Each one exhibits the following features:

• two XEON E5620 (Westmere) @ 2.4Ghz (i.e. 8 cores),
• 32GB DDR3 RAM,
• two gigabit Ethernet links,
• two SAS 15ktpm 160GB hard drives.

With such configuration, the whole system features 256 physical cores (512 with Hyperthreading) and 1To RAM. On its side, with drives setup in a RAID0 configuration, the achieved I/O throughput is over than 300MB/s.

All nodes feature a local installation of a 64 bits Scientific Linux 6.5 (RHEL clone).