ICC Collaborated with AMD and eHealth Nigeria to design a system for improving healthcare
Critical infrastructure such as healthcare is essential in every country. But nowhere are people more vulnerable to holes in the system as countries developing while plagued with ongoing conflict. Nigeria has made incredible strides in recent years, but it remains a very fragile place in need of stable services to protect the well-being of its people.
eHealth Nigeria, a non-governmental organization dedicated to improving healthcare in the country, worked with ICC to determine the best technology to move towards this goal. ICC delivered a server solution based on the multi-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series and AMD Opteron™ 4100 Series processors.
eHealth Nigeria had already identified a key problem before approaching ICC: limited access to networks due to poor server infrastructure. One major contributing factor of this was a lack of consistent reliable energy. Without these elements, an information system for basic but key tasks such as tracking patient data and records was impossible to actualize. eHealth Nigeria set out to solve these issues by designing a small but fully-functional data center with its own dedicated power source (a combination of gasoline- and diesel-powered generators.)
Now with a power source, albeit a limited one, they had the ability to house their data center at the office of one of their partners. But they still needed the server hardware to bring their original vision to light.
That’s where ICC stepped in.
ICC built and configured a customized set of:
The 1012G-MT servers were each built with an 8-core AMD Opteron™ 6128 processor and the ICC 2022G-UE 2U was equipped with dual AMD Opteron™ 6128 processors. The 1012C-T server was configured with a 6-core AMD Opteron™ 4170 processor. All were were loaded with open-source Linux® KVM to supply the virtualization architecture.
The eight-core processors rated at only 65 Watts allow for the virtualization of eight or more servers while also helping to keep energy expenditures down, a crucial need for the data center in Nigeria which runs on limited power.
Today, eHealth Nigeria’s servers are serving people, clinics, and hospitals across the country!
Thanks to our partner AMD for all of their help and also featuring this story on their blog!
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