Testbeds

The MadEdge cluster contains a rack of edge servers connecting to the UW-Madison campus backbone. Our far-edge data center encloses elastic computing (CPU/GPU), memory, storage, and network capacity based on application demands. Here are three types of edge servers:

Type-1 node:

• 2U Gigabyte R282-3C1
• 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4310 12-core processor
• 128GB DDR4
• 1/10 GbE network
• 480GB NVMe OS drive + pluggable NVMe data drives
• 2x NVIDIA A5000/V100 GPUs

Type-2 node:

• 2U Gigabyte Edge Server
• 2x Intel 6526Y+ 16-core processors
• 256GB DDR5
• 1/10 GbE network
• 960GB NVMe OS drive + 4x 1.92TB NVMe data drives
• 2x NVIDIA L40S GPUs

Type-3 node:

• 4U SilverStone RM44
• Intel Core i9-14900K
• 96GB DDR5
• 2.5 GbE network
• 4TB NVMe OS drive
• 1x NVIDIA RTX4090