Searching for server hardware configurations

[lanfker]

Hi there,

I noticed srsRAN documentation has a helpful sample hardware configuration here. However, I wish to have a hardware configuration that costs relatively high (>10k USD) for a sample 5G gNB deployment, and would like to ask for some suggestions in order not to buy components that turn out to be bad choices. I really hope the documentation has recommended hardware configurations of different price ranges. Anyway, here are my questions:

Question 1: Is it that any computers (desktop or servers, not Raspberry PIs) will be fine to run the srs RAN software? Or, only some tested configurations can, e.g., only specific combinations of CPU, Motherboard, NIC, memory, etc.
Question 2: Any recommended CPU and NIC I should consider?
Question 3: Any hardware components that can provide acceleration for the server machine?
Quesiton 4: Should I consider GPU for basic communication needs? Basic needs mean for running the sample 5G network via srs RAN, not for AI/ML inference or training.

Thanks a lot,