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To conduct the testing, we first deployed a 15th-generation Dell PowerEdge R650 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 as an “Administration node.” Next, we deployed a cluster of three 14th-generation Dell PowerEdge R640s with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 as the “Control Plane” nodes providing the Kubernetes services. These systems were chosen for hardware availability reasons to provide administration and orchestration of the cluster. The choice of 14th- and 15th-generation PowerEdge control plane servers would not typically affect the performance of the data plane.
As for the AI worker nodes, we deployed four Dell PowerEdge R760s with 5th-generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8562Y+ CPUs. We installed 512GB of Micron DDR5-5600MT/s memory in each system and connected each node to the network using an Intel® E810-C Dual Port 100Gb/s network card.