The CloudMIP platform is currently hosted in the datacenter of our university.

Below is an overview of the CloudMIP platform.

The platform consists of the following items:

• a front-node,
• a NFS server,
• 32 nodes (blades) dispatched within two DELL M1000e chassis.
  

[1] Front-node
The front-node is a Dell R710 featuring 8 cores XEON@2.8GHz, 48GB DDR3 memory and 6 146GB 15ktpm SAS drives in a RAID6 setup.
This server is running a CentOS 7.2 Linux distribution.

[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 6.5 distribution.

[3] Nodes
Each Dell M1000e 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),
• 48GB DDR3 RAM,
• two gigabit Ethernet links,
• two SAS 15ktpm 146GB hard drives,
• CentOS 7.2

With such configuration, the whole system features 256 physical cores and 1.6To RAM. On its side, with drives setup in a RAID0 configuration, the achieved I/O throughput is over than 300MB/s.

To take advantage of the multiple embedded Gigabit Ethernet interfaces of our servers, we aggregated (i.e trunk) all of them into single devices. Then, vlans segmentation is applied.