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Information Security and Privacy (InSPiRe) Laboratory


Hardware Overview



In total, the available hardware to support the InSPiRe lab consists of:
  • 105 Xeon processors, 
  • 205 1 Gbps Ethernet ports
  • 13 layer 2/3 network switches.
plus,
  • 8 20" 1600x1280 LCD displays
  • 11 19" 1280x1024 LCD Displays

This hardware breaks out as follows:

Computers:
  • 42 IBM HS20 dual processor blade modules
    • Two 3.0 GHz 64-bit Hyperthreaded Xeon processors per blade
    • One GByte Memory per blade
    • Two 36.5 Gbyte SCSI disks per blade
    • Four 1 Gbps Ethernet ports per blade

  • 2 IBM x386 dual processor 2U rack mount servers
    • Two 3.0 GhZ 64-bit Hyperthreaded Xeon processors per server 
    • Two GByte Memory per server
    • 5x74 Gbyte 15k rpm SCSI disk raid on each server
    • Four 1 Gbps Ethernet Ports per server
    • One advanced management module
    • Dual redundant power supplies

  • 4 IBM Pro-Z Dual processor workstations
    • Two 3.4 GHz 64-bit Hyperthreaded Xeon processors per workstation
    • Two GByte Memory per workstation
    • One 80 Gbyte and one 160 Gbyte Serial ATA hard drive per workstation
    • Two workstations have 19" 1280x1024 LCD displays
    • Two workstations have  2x2 20" 1280x1600 LCD displays (8 Million pixels per composite display)
    • Five 1 Gbps Ethernet ports per workstation

  • 9 IBM Intellistation small-form factor PC's
    • Single 2.8 32-bit Hyperthreaded GHz Xeon processor per machine
    • One GByte Memory per machine
    • 160 Gbyte hard drive per machine
    • One  1 Gbps Ethernet port per machine
    • 19" 1280x1024 LCD per machine
Network Equipment:
  • 12 Nortel Networks Inc. Layer 2/3 network switches
    • Each of the 3 IBM blade chassis holds 4 of these network switches
    • Each switch connects to one of the 4 Ethernet ports on each blade installed in the chassis.

  • Cisco Systems Ltd. Catalyst 4503 Layer 2/3 network switch 
    • support for 48 1 Gbps Ethernet ports
    • support for 4 1 Gbps single mode fiber upstream ports.
Infrastructure Equipment:
  • IBM 42U Enterprise Rack

  • IBM KVM module

  • IBM 17" LCD 1U rack mount display console 

  • 3 IBM Blade Chassis 
    • support for 14 blades per chassis
    • redundant power supplies
    • advanced management module

2003 - 2012 Information Security and Privacy Research (InSPiRe) Laboratory, University of Victoria

 
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