CSCF Infrastructure Technology Group

CSCF Standard (Infrastructure) Supported Architectures

Table of Contents

• Hardware
  • Laptops
    • Minimum Configuration
    • Recommended Configuration
  • Servers
  • Networking Hardware
• Software
  • Operating Systems
  • Applications

Laptops (2020/08)

All components to be supported by both Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Minimum Configuration

Lenovo Thinkpad T480S

Intel Core I5-8250u processor

16GB RAM

512 SSD disk

Intel UHD Graphics 620

14" 19200x1080 display

IPS multi-touch screen

backlit keyboard

720p camera and figureprint reader

Recommended Configuration

Lenovo Thinkpad T14

Intel Core i5-10210U processor

16 GB DDR4 2667MHz (8 GB Soldered + 8 GB DIMM)

512 SSD disk

14.0" FHD (1920 x 1080) WVA, anti-glare, touchscreen, 300 nits

Nvidia MX330 DDR5 2GB graphics

Features:

  • backlit keyboard

  • 720p IR camera

  • Fingerprint Reader

  • Smart Card Reader

Server Hardware

1. Basics

   CSA approved system:

   Light-Out-Management interface

   • Dedicated NIC
   • Secure User Authentication
   • Full KVM over IP via HTML interface
   • Network mounting of installation media

   Motherboard:

   • Supports a minimum of one TB RAM
   • OCP 3.0 slot
   • Minimum two PCIe 4.0 slots

   Rack-mount case:

   • Front-to-back cooling
   • Monitor and USB ports for keyboard, mouse, monitor and storage devices.
   • Minimum four NVMe U.2 drive bays, U.3 preferred
   • Minimum four SATA or preferably 12Gbit/s SAS3 drive bays
   • Redundant high efficiency (minimum platinum grade) power supplies
   • rapid mount rack rails (no cable management)

   Warranty

   • 4 yrs next or second business day on-site service.

2. Server Manufacturers

   Server Manufacturers CSCF Infrastructure Requests Quotes For

3. Infrastructure Standard Configurations

   Server Minimum (2019/04)

   Server Workgroup (2019/04)

   Server General Use (2019/04)

   Dual CPU Servers (2019/08)

   • up to a 4U rack-mount case:
     • front-to-back cooling
     • minimum four 12Gbs SAS/SATA drive bays, four U.2 drive bays
     • redundant high efficiency (minimum platinum grade) power supplies
   • rapid mount rack rails (no cable management)
   • Dual CPU, minimum 18 cores.
     Currently using Intel Scalable Processors family, primarily the Xeon® 6248r processor.
     • 24 core/48 thread,
     • 3.00GHz Base 4.00GHz Max&Turbo Frequency
   • 384GB of ECC RAM (two banks of three 32GB DIMMs per CPU)
   • minimum mirrored 500GB enterprise SSD drives for OS distribution; software raid.
   • minimum four x16 PCIe slots
   • dual port 25Gb SFP28 networking
   • one additional Mellanox dual port 25Gb or dual port 50Gb or single port 100Gb NIC.
   • full KVM-over-IP remote management system with secure user authentication
   • VGA/USB console ports on same side as power switch strongly preferred.
   • minimum 3 year cross-ship warranty
   • all components to be supported by current Ubuntu Linux and VMware ESXi Hypervisor distributions

   Server Data Storage Node (2019/04)

   Server Mac (2019/04)

Networking Hardware (2011/01)

Software

Operating Systems

• MacOS 10.11 (or newer) (2016/09)
• Windows 10 (64-bit) (2016/06)
• Ubuntu 20.04 Linux (64-bit) (2021/05)

  Quick flowchart/overview of CS Infrastructure Standard Linux Intallations.

Applications

Mac's and Windows Systems

This table lists the minimum set of software applications the SCS Technology Integration Group supports for the Mac and Windows CSI supported platforms.

Category	Package Name	Software Availability
		MacIntosh	Windows
Calendar Manager	Connect (IST's Exchange Calendar Service)	yes	yes
File Archiving/Compression	7-zip	yes	yes
Drawing	Dia	yes	yes
Graphical Windowing Systems	rdesktop	yes	N/R
	X11	yes	xming
Image Manipulation	Gimp	yes	yes
Health Monitoring Tools	Smartmontools	yes	yes
Mail Client	Thunderbird	yes	yes
Multimedia Player	VLC media player	yes	yes
Office Suite	LibreOffice	yes	yes
PDF Viewer	Adobe Reader	yes	yes
	Ghostscript,GhostView and GSview	yes	yes
Secure Terminal	ssh, mosh	yes	yes
Web Browser	FireFox, Google Chrome	yes	yes
Web Browser Plugins	Adobe Flash Player	yes	yes
	Adobe Shockwave	yes	yes
	java (Sun)	yes	yes
	VLC media player	yes	yes
Legend:
N/R	- Not required.
N/A	- Not available.
?	- Being Investigated.

Linux Systems

Footnotes

AMD -- CSCF has a history with using AMD Opteron server processors that dates back to when Intel only had the Itanium processor for 64 bit cpu architecture.

Ubuntu Linux -- The Infrastructure Group's current Linux server distribution of choice because we use it in the workstation environment and it gets excellent third party ratings. (Our CS Club is also an official Canadian mirror for Ubuntu distributions.)