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Dell EMC High Performance Computing Solutions PortfolioMake innovation real with artifical intelligence and high performance computing

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Go ahead. Dream big. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

A few HPC use cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Dell EMC HPC solution capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Advancing HPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Democratizing HPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Optimizing HPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Dell EMC is different . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Dell EMC HPC Solutions Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Proven results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Services and financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Let’s expand the boundaries of HPC together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Dell EMC AI Experience Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Dell Customer Solution Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Dell EMC HPC and AI Centers of Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Customer successes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Go ahead. Dream big.Discovery and innovation have always started with great minds dreaming big. With the help of increasingly powerful and sophisticated technology, you’re now empowered to dream even bigger.

High performance computing has been a powerful tool for researchers and scientists for decades. But recent rapid advancements in processing power and connectivity, combined with massive new sources of real-time information, are fueling the next industrial revolution, and the next quantum leap in human progress.

That’s because, as it becomes more accessible, high performance computing is enabling adoption of artificial intelligence in multiple industries across a variety of use cases. This convergence of HPC and AI creates more opportunities to break new ground, make important discoveries and solve some of the most important challenges of our time.

As each day passes, more and more engineers, researchers and designers are using the power of HPC to change our world in astonishing ways. Organizations of all sizes and in a broadening array of industry verticals are leveraging powerful HPC solutions to run the AI algorithms that help them answer bigger questions and make more amazing discoveries, faster, to keep pace with competition that’s coming from every angle.

Dell EMC can help you explore and reap the benefits of this exciting new frontier. Purpose-built Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC dramatically simplify and shorten the time it takes to design and configure HPC systems built to execute highly complex and compute-intensive tasks in real time. And you can come take an HPC test drive with Dell EMC experts using leading-edge Dell EMC and partner technologies to help you better manage risk in your journey to digital transformation with high performance computing.

Dell EMC is helping expand the boundaries of this exciting new frontier with scalable, flexible solutions designed to help you solve complex problems faster than ever. In fact, we’re one of the only companies in the world with a portfolio for data analytics, AI and HPC that spans workstations, servers, networking, storage, rack systems and services. In addition, Dell EMC HPC and AI experts are active innovators and collaborators in the worldwide technical community dedicated to advancing high performance computing and AI. Our goal is to enable more organizations like yours to leverage advanced data analytics and AI to do what you do best — change the world.

A few HPC use casesHow does your organization plan to leverage HPC technology? Dell EMC has the proven expertise in assisting industries with building, deploying and supporting HPC clusters.

Financial servicesHelp these customers process trades and transactions faster and determine their financial risks and opportunities.

Defense and securityProtect citizens by detecting patterns of anomalous behavior, predict where threats or emergencies may strike, and take measures to thwart the attack.

Life sciencesAccelerate time-to-insight for a range of applications, including drug design, cancer research, agriculture, forensics, genomics and bioinformatics.

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2,314 exabytesof medical data predicted by 20201

99% accuracyidentifying tropical cyclones, weather fronts and atmospheric rivers using AI and HPC2

69.2% of CFOssurveyed say artificial intelligence and machine learning are “critically important” or “very important” to the business3

1 Dell EMC ebook, “Making digital transformation in healthcare a reality,” February 2018.

2 Earth Institute at Columbia University, “Artificial Intelligence—A Game Changer for Climate Change and the Environment,” June 2018.

3 CNBC.com, “One quarter of CFO Council members say A.I. is ‘critical’ to their companies,” June 2017.

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Digital manufacturingOptimize the performance of your software licenses with HPC solutions designed specifically for computer-aided engineering (CAE).

ResearchQuickly adopt HPC solutions that match the unique needs of a wide variety of workloads involving complex scientific analysis.

High‑performance data analytics (HPDA)Explore the possibilities of machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence with benchmarked and optimized HPDA configurations.

Oil and gasFuel the algorithms that will revolutionize oil and gas exploration by precisely pinpointing elusive oil and gas reserves.

Dell EMC HPC solution capabilitiesDell EMC recognizes that no two customers have the same needs and requirements. Our unique approach to HPC focuses on three areas to achieve faster results, enable discovery and drive the creation of intellectual property with price/performance optimized HPC solutions.

Solution benefits• Advance HPC by tapping into Dell EMC’s world-class team of industry experts and HPC

Innovation Centers to obtain a custom-built solution, fueled by user-inspired innovations.• Democratize HPC with solutions designed to enable small and medium enterprises to

accelerate your science, engineering and analytics initiatives.• Optimize HPC with a price/performance optimized portfolio that includes everything

you need for HPC — Dell EMC is the only vendor with an HPC portfolio that includes workstations, servers, storage, software and services.

Advancing HPCDell EMC has the expertise, technology and partnerships to advance the state of the art for HPC solutions — from the workgroup to the TOP500. You can:

• Tap into a world-class team of industry experts with the domain expertise to design HPC solutions from desktop to petaFLOP.

• Plug into our HPC and AI Innovation Lab — dedicated to cutting-edge research and development — or one of our many HPC Innovation Centers around the world.

• Create an HPC solution, fueled by customer-inspired innovations developed while working with some of the world’s largest service providers.

Democratizing HPCDell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC enable small and medium enterprises to accelerate science, engineering and analytics initiatives. You can:

• Get to answers faster — with a simplified design, configuration and ordering process that takes hours instead of weeks.

• Benefit from domain-specific designs tuned by Dell EMC engineers for specific science, engineering and analytics workloads using flexible, industry-standard building blocks.

• Enjoy the confidence of tested and validated solutions architected by Dell EMC engineering with a single point of contact for services and support.

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Advancing

Democratizing

Optimizing

Committed to driving human progress by helping more people use high performance computing solutions to make more innovations and discoveries than any other technology provider in the world.

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Optimizing HPCOur robust portfolio of products and services is optimized for HPC and delivered by a company that will be there for you over the long haul. You can:

• Select from a price/performance optimized portfolio that includes everything you need for HPC — Dell EMC is the only vendor with an end-to-end HPC portfolio.

• Take advantage of Dell EMC management and orchestration software to maximize utilization, including hybrid cloud.

• Enjoy a full range of HPC services, from deployment and warranty to financial services.

Dell EMC is differentWe’re committed to advancing data analytics, HPC and AI, and we’ve dedicated a great deal of resources toward that goal.• Come in for an executive briefing and collaborate on ways to reach your business goals.• Dell Customer Solution Centers are staffed with computer scientists, engineers and

Ph.D.s who are subject matter experts in a variety of disciplines. • We are committed to providing you with choice. We want you to get what you need and

have a great experience working with us. If we don’t have what you need, we’ll tell you who does. We believe in being open, and we publish our performance results.

• Dell EMC is the only company in the world with a portfolio that spans from workstations to supercomputers, including servers, networking, storage, software and services.

• Because Dell EMC offers such a wide selection of solutions, we can act as your trusted advisor without trying to sell you a one-size-fits-all approach to your problem. That range of solutions has also given us the expertise to understand a broad spectrum of challenges and how to address them.

• To protect, detect and recover from cyberattacks, security is built into the Dell EMC PowerEdge server design, not bolted on after the fact.

Dell EMC HPC Solutions PortfolioDell EMC understands that designing an optimized solution starts with the target workload and use case. So, we take the time to understand your environment, and your business goals. We then take a solution-level approach to your HPC project that results in an optimal solution of workstations, servers, networking, storage and software, rounded out with the services and support you need to succeed.

Ready SolutionsDell EMC has invested to create a portfolio of Ready Solutions designed to simplify the configuration, deployment and management of high performance computing clusters. These trusted designs have been engineered, tested and tuned for a variety of key use cases. These systems include the servers, storage, networking, software and services that have been proven in our labs and in customer deployments to meet workload requirements and customer outcomes.

The modular solution building blocks provide a customized yet validated approach, for customers deploying new clusters, scaling or upgrading existing environments. From workstations to supercomputers, Dell EMC and partners are available worldwide for services ranging from consulting to remote cluster management.

Dell EMC and OpenHPCDell EMC supports the OpenHPC Collaborative Project, and is working hard to provide a new, open source framework to support the world’s most sophisticated HPC environments. Visit openhpc.community to learn more.

“ What I appreciate with Dell Technologies is the overall solution that they have delivered to us. Not only the traditional components like storage, compute, etc., but being able to deliver the full package — that has been the major differentiator compared to competitors.”4

—Robert Tapper, IT Operations Manager,

Zenuity

4 Dell EMC case study, “Zenuity Makes Driving Safer with Autonomous Driving Software,” September 2018.

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Proven resultsDell EMC holds leadership positions in some of the biggest and largest-growth categories in the IT infrastructure business, and that means you can confidently source your information technology needs from Dell EMC.

∙ #1 in servers6 ∙ #1 in converged and hyper converged infrastructure (HCI)7 ∙ #1 in storage8 ∙ #1 cloud IT infrastructure9

See Dell Technologies Key Facts.

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPCProven designs built for enterprise high performance computing workloads

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing A building-block approach to HPC that simplifies and speeds design for simulations, including structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Life Sciences Systems architected to deliver high throughput and fast turnaround for a diverse range of fields, including drug design, cancer research, agriculture, biofuels and forensics

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Research HPC solutions that matches the unique needs of your research workloads more quickly and cost-effectively

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC NFS Storage Resilient, scalable, cost-effective storage systems based on the Network File System (NFS) protocol

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Lustre Storage Large-scale, high-bandwidth storage to tap the power and scalability of Lustre®

Bright Cluster Manager© for HPC lets you deploy complete clusters over bare metal with single-pane-of-glass management for the hardware, the operating system, HPC software and users.

Differentiator: Dell EMC Data Science Provisioning Portal

• Simplifies deployment with a point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI)

• Mitigates risk by highlighting human error in cluster definition and deployment

• Delivers ready-to-run environments in five clicks

The Dell EMC OpenManage systems management portfolio helps tame the complexity of your IT infrastructure with intuitive tools that work together to deliver automated, repeatable processes, based on your unique policies, enabling effortless management.

“ Our turn-key system removes the complexity from the installation, management and use of artificial intelligence frameworks, and has enabled CSIRO to speed up its time to market for scientific outcomes, which will in turn boost Australia’s competitiveness in the global economy.”5

—Andrew Underwood, Dell EMC Field CTO

5 CSIRO press release, “CSIRO powers bionic vision research with new Dell EMC PowerEdge based artificial intelligence capability,” accessed March 2019.

6 IDC WW Quarterly Server Tracker, Vendor Revenue, March 2019.

7 IDC WW Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, Vendor Revenue, September 2018.

8 IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, Vendor Revenue, March 2019.

9 IDC WW Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, Vendor Revenue, January 2019.

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WorkstationsDell EMC Precision workstations run high-demand, industry-specific applications for scientific calculations, remote visualization, 3D industrial designs, engineering simulations and digital content creation at peak performance to help you save time and control costs. Dell EMC workstations, together with accelerators, deliver breakthrough performance for parallel computing applications.

ServersThe server is the heart of the HPC cluster. Dell EMC PowerEdge servers can be configured with multiple options to meet your density, flexibility and performance needs.

Dell EMC PowerEdge rack servers are designed for HPC environments with broad requirements, including more local I/O (input/output) capacity and expandability. With the latest generation processors, higher I/O, more accelerator and interconnect options, and ultra-dense designs, PowerEdge servers support a broad range of needs.

NetworkingDue to the ever-increasing size of data sets, the network that aggregates the individual compute and storage nodes into a true cluster is increasingly important. Networking and interconnect technology is one of the key areas where Dell EMC’s push toward standardization has truly simplified the HPC world. Dell EMC has a wide and balanced portfolio of network technologies, combined with interconnect and switching technologies, that provide an optimal solution for HPC environments.

StorageBased on unprecedented growth in the amount of data that HPC creates, cost-effective, high-performance, scalable and resilient storage is one of the greatest challenges facing HPC facilities. Dell EMC’s HPC and storage expertise provides you with options for a cost-effective and intelligent storage strategy. Dell EMC HPC storage solutions start with a single server and scale to hundreds of Dell EMC PowerVault ME storage arrays with the use of a parallel file system, or Dell EMC Isilon scale-out NAS in a single system.

SoftwareManaging a cluster environment and the applications running on it are key to any HPC system. Dell EMC can deliver diverse management suites for various operating systems, cluster management middleware, libraries, compilers and monitoring tools that allow you to get the most out of your solution and HPC applications.

The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server can fit up to four servers in 2U,

The Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 server is an accelerator optimized, high-density 4 accelerators, 2 socket, 1U rack server.

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa server combines four CPUs with four accelerators in a powerful 1:1 ratio to drive database acceleration.

Dell EMC Ethernet Build small to large clusters using low-latency, high-throughput, software-defined, open networking technologies that redefine the economics of the future-ready network.

Mellanox® InfiniBand® Maximize your Dell EMC PowerEdge server performance to get the bandwidth and speed you need for your performance-driven server and storage applications.

Dell EMC Networking H-Series Director-Class Switches based on the Intel Omni-Path Architecture Highly integrated director-class switches give you the scalability and integration that HPC deployments need. Increase computing density, and reliability, and lower power consumption and costs.

HPC NFS Storage Speed up your workload productivity at any scale with a Network File Storage (NFS) solution built on proven Dell products.

HPC Lustre Storage High-speed computing and throughput for data-intensive applications such as advanced modeling, simulation and analysis.

Dell EMC Isilon scale-out NAS (network-attached storage) The ideal storage solution for data-intensive HPC environments that require the collection, storage and transmission of large-scale data sets.

“ We moved up to OpenManage Enterpise. We can now, with one person, within half an hour, deploy a configuration and updates on 300 servers, while before, updating servers was basically one person per 15 servers in a day.”10

—Ulrich Fuchs, IT Service Manager, Alice Experiment, CERN

10 Dell EMC case study, “How the IT Staff at CERN Get More Sleep with OpenManage Enterprise,” October 2018.

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Services and financingDell EMC is there every step of the way, linking people, processes and technology to accelerate innovation and enable optimal business outcomes.

• Dell EMC Big Data Vision Workshop focuses on big data for business leaders. We have a unique methodology to identify and prioritize a single use case with a combination of implementation feasibility and business value. It’s a three week engagement that applies research, interviews and data science expertise and techniques to the organization — culminating in a one day workshop for your team to identify and agree on a use case and path forward. This approach sets Dell EMC apart from the “bring in a bunch of technology and see what it can do” approach that’s pushed by many vendors.

• Dell EMC Consulting Services are delivered by certified experts to help you get the business value of advanced computing. The services include an assessment, workshop, testing, proofs of concept and production implementation. These experts help determine where advanced computing is a good fit for your organization. They also help you build your own internal team of experts through knowledge transfer at each step.

• Dell EMC Education Services offers courses and certifications in data science and advanced analytics through self–paced online labs and instructor–led workshops.

• Dell EMC Deployment experts have the experience, expertise and best practices to enhance your success with data analytics, HPC and AI solutions. With a proven track record of success in thousands of engagements worldwide, you can rely on Dell EMC as your partner.

• Dell EMC Support experts can provide comprehensive hardware and collaborative software support 24x7 for optimal system performance and minimized downtime. ProSupport includes next-business-day on-site service with four- and eight-hour parts-and-labor response options, and escalation management with customer-defined severity levels. You can also opt for ProSupport Plus to get a technology service manager, who serves as a single point of contact for your support needs.

• Once the HPC cluster is deployed, Dell EMC Remote HPC Cluster Management services help keep it running smoothly with proactive monitoring and management of the entire HPC solution.

• Dell Financial Services offers a wealth of leasing and financing options to help you find opportunities when your organization faces decisions regarding capital expenditures, operating expenditures and cash flow.

Dell Customer Solution CentersOur global network of 21 dedicated Dell EMC Customer Solution Centers are trusted environments where world-class IT experts collaborate with you to share best practices, facilitate in-depth discussions of effective business strategies and help your business become more successful and competitive. Dell EMC Customer Solution Centers reduce the risks associated with new technology investments and can help improve speed of implementation.

Dell EMC AI Experience ZonesCurious about AI and what it can do for your business? Run demos, try proofs of concept and pilot software in Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, and Bangalore. Dell EMC experts are available to collaborate and share best practices as you can explore the latest technology, get the information and hands-on experience you need for your advanced computing workloads.

“ We want our customers to be able to do things with hpcDIRECT that they can’t do by themselves, so it’s really important to have vendor partners like Dell EMC to enable us on the hardware side to be able to physically push the envelope.

“ Frankly, if Dell EMC wasn’t there to do that, well, we’d have to build it ourselves. We’re used to doing that, but we have become comfortable with the way Dell EMC supports the type of innovation that Verne Global is all about.”11

—Tate Cantrell, CTO Verne Global

11 Dell EMC case study, “HPC and AI as a Service,” with Verne Global, November 2018.

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Dell EMC HPC and AI Centers of ExcellenceAs data analytics, HPC and AI converge and the technology evolves, Dell EMC’s worldwide HPC and AI innovation centers provide thought leadership, test new technologies and share best practices. They maintain local industry partnerships, and have direct access to Dell EMC and other technology creators to incorporate your feedback and needs into their roadmaps. Through collaboration, Dell EMC HPC and AI Centers of Excellence provide a network of resources based on the wide-ranging know-how and experience in the community.

Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation LabThe Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas, is the flagship innovation center. Housed in a 13,000-square-foot data center, it gives you access to thousands of Dell EMC servers, two powerful HPC clusters, and sophisticated storage and network systems. It’s staffed by a dedicated group of computer scientists, engineers and Ph.D. subject matter experts who actively partner and collaborate with customers and other members of the HPC community. The team engineers HPC and AI solutions, tests new and emerging

technologies, and shares expertise including performance results and best practices.

Customer successes ∙ The University of Cambridge uses HPC and AI to solve some of today’s most

demanding data-driven simulation challenges, from those involving medical imaging and genomic analysis to the mapping of exoplanets.

∙ Swinburne University of Technology inspires a new generation of scientists with an HPC system that can compress 31 million years of calculations into a single second.

∙ The MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides 1.7 petaflops peak performance to accelerate government research in autonomous systems, device physics and machine learning.

∙ NOAA supercomputers play a vital role in monitoring weather events — from blizzards to hurricanes.

• TGen uses advanced computing to fight rare diseases.• Partners Healthcare uses advanced analytics to transform patient health.• Peking University uses cryo-EM supported by 2PB of storage to open new frontiers in

biochemistry.• Bumrungrad International Hospital uses advanced computing to support personalized

care models.• CSIRO uses HPC to double the computational power available for AI-enabled bionic

vision.

The Dell EMC Zenith cluster at the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab in Austin, TX, is ranked on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.

Let’s expand the boundaries of HPC together.Contact your Dell EMC or authorized channel partner representative today to see how your organization can use Dell EMC’s practical and cost-effective HPC solutions.

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