What is FAbRIC
Derek Chiou (PI, UT Austin/Microsoft)
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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1205721 and generous donations and technical support from Alpha-data, Intel, Bluespec, IBM, ImpulseC, Intel, Microsoft, Nallatech, Nvidia and Xilinx.
In any publications that use FAbRIC, please include the following acknowledgment: "This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1205721."
User Access
If you would like to use the FAbRIC system, please first request and obtain a TACC account at https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/account-request. Make sure you get a confirmation email from TACC and that you can login to the user portal. Keep in mind you will need to login to your TACC account at least once to activate your account.
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Primary system admins: Alex Hsu (alex.hsu@tacc.utexas.edu) and David Carver (dcarver@tacc.utexas.edu)
Microsoft Catapult cluster
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- Two Intel® Xeon® E5-2450, 2.1GHz, 8-core, 20MB Cache, 95W
- 64GB RAM
- Four 2TB 7.2k 3G SATA 3.5"; Two 480GB 6G Micron SATA SSD 2.5"
- Intel 82599 10GbE Mezz Card
- Altera Stratix V FPGA Card
- Operating System: Windows Server 2012
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Primary system admins: Alex Hsu (alex.hsu@tacc.utexas.edu) and David Carver (dcarver@tacc.utexas.edu)
History News
News (November 10, 2015): The second FAbRIC platform is IBM POWER8+CAPI. We have nine of those systems that are being brought up right now. We will be opening up the systems to a limited number of beta testers in the next month or two, and plan to open up to the general research community in the first quarter of next year. Thanks to IBM for donating the POWER8 servers, Altera/Nallatech for donating their FPGA boards, Nvidia for donating their GPU boards, and Xilinx/Alpha Data for donating their FPGA boards.
News (November 12, 2015): The third system type is the Microsoft Catapult platform. 384 data center servers, each equipped with an Altera Stratix V D5 FPGA are in TACC being brought up right now. We will be opening up the systems to alpha users in the next month or two, and plan to open up to beta testers early next year. Thanks to Microsoft and Altera for providing the systems, FPGAs, and tools. Here is a blog post. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2015/11/12/project-catapult-servers-available-to-academic-researchers.aspx