HPE Cray Supercomputing EX255a AMD Instinct MI300A APU

HPE Cray Supercomputing EX255a AMD Instinct MI300A APU
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

26 Feb 2025
153767

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	EX255a
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.4.0 (12/04/2024)
CPU:	4 AMD INSTINCT™ MI300A APU
RAM:	512 GB
Host Bus Adapter:	Samsung® NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	Samsung® PM9A3 1.92TB NVMe Gen4 MP Read Intensive M.2 SSD , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.1.0-150500.110.2

Config Notes

System cerification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP3 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs and 1011 GB of memory.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.

Adapters and Drivers


2 HPE Slingshot SA220M Ethernet 200Gb 2‑port Mezzanine NIC
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: cxi-ss1.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 10-Jan-2025	Driver Size: 5216292
	Checksum: b79f57428a415f497f16bbecf3d6e6ad
	Driver Version: E0753DC14FFEF71850637FD

Samsung® NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 43741
	Checksum: 1247b1054101dde0910e09fe6dbfa39d
	Driver Version: 1.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

585665

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