MT58: Dell High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions enable innovation, outperform expectations

HPC is critical for BIG problems that require faster, better answers via integrated, scalable solutions.

Cloud Computing

Emerging usage model to simplify HPC

Modeling and simulation

Traditional ParallelComputing Clusters

Large ensemble problems Analyze multiple data sets

High throughput computing

Fast answers and insights for data intensive problems

Big data analytics

Scalable, end-to-end approach that enables faster insightsand competitive advantage

Lifecycle services

Modular and reference designs

Flexiblearchitectures

HPC domain expertise

• Faster time to discovery End to end services maximize your HPC investment, from financing to configuration, installation, cluster management and recycling.

• Integrated systemsEngineered and packaged solutions are fine-tuned for use cases.

• Standards-based building blocksModular architecture grows capacity as needed.

• 31 years of computer industry experienceDell is a proven HPC partner, offering standard, open solutions from Dell and strategic partners.

• Optimized portfolio of industry leading toolsAugments and adapts to customers’ operations.

• Dell HPC engineering and research teamFocus on your business goals.

• Best practices, performance characterizationsIncorporate Dell research into each HPC installation.

Deliver open, flexible and reliable solutions that solve customer problems while removing complexity and providing choice.

Dell HPC solution offering

HPC solutions with the right fit and balance

From this To this

Collaborative, flexible and simplified

Select, deploy, manage and scale your cluster with a single source of support.

Get exactly the help you need.

Rack Integration Services

Dell HPC Merge Center

15 of the world’s top 500 reported supercomputers were built at this facility in Austin. Five were interconnected onsite.

• Expand IT capabilities to scale with your business

• Speed up deployments. and improve productivity.

• Optimize performance with flexible, customized services.

Turnkey outsource system management service that provides secure remote system monitoring, administration and support to help increase your system utilization and uptime.

Dell Financial Services provides flexible payment options so you can get more compute power for your money. By providing the financing, we make it easier for you to upgrade and refresh.

DeploymentServices

Remote Cluster Management Services

Dell Financial Services

Performance-validated solutions for computationally intensive workloads

System building blocks: HPC compute

C6320 FX2 w/ FC430 IB

R630R430 R730+GPU R930R730

MDC XA-M20AM630 Blades

PowerEdge family of general purpose nodes

C4130

DenseCPU

Balanced compute and storage

Denseacceleration

Dense bladeservers

Container-optimized

Common management

System building blocks: High performance storage

Scale petabytes as easily as gigabytes in both capacity and performance.

Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution

(NSS)

Complete, ready-to-go NFS

storage solution that comes fully

configured with hardware, software

and professional support from Dell.

Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Edition of Lustre

Fully supported, high-performance

and cost-effective Lustre parallel

file system that is easy to deploy,

configure and manage.

System building blocks: HPC networking

Dell makes powerful networking technology more accessible and affordable.

• Flexible and scalable networking platforms offer high speed, low power, low latency interconnects for running data intensive workloads.

• Rapid migration and transition options between traditional, new, and developing technologies.

Dell R&D solutions for verticals

Specialty clusters that remove complexity for R&D customers

Dell HPC Solution for Digital Manufacturing

Boost your workstation output with a compact, space-saving form factor that fits conveniently under lab desks and countertops.

Dell Genomic Data Analysis Platform

Tuned configuration for Next Generation Sequencing research with focus on power and density

Dedicated to research and development of HPC solutions

Dell HPC Solutions Engineering Lab

Meet real-life, workload-specific challenges through collaboration with the global HPC research community.

• Dell XL Consortium

• Dell | Cambridge HPC Solution Centre

• University of Pisa

• University of Texas — Texas Accelerated Computing Center (TACC)

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) —University of Illinois Private Sector Program

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Private Sector Program simulation.PSP Mission

• Help others do what they do better through high value-added advanced computing and data techniques.

• Stay 15 minutes ahead of world’s most sophisticated companies.

Impact

• NCSA PSP is the nation’s leading industry-facing supercomputing service.

• Dell is the OEM of choice for PSP’s iForge.

Accelerating industry innovation with supercomputing

Merle Giles

Director of Private Sector Programs and Economic Impact at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

‘Innovation converts inventions and discovery into engineered products and services.’— Merle Giles

HPCwire 2015 ‘Person to Watch’

Relevant computing for real users

Application-driven solutions

• iForge delivers the fastest computing for a wide variety of applications from CAE to bioinformatics, life sciences, data analytics, and high-throughput rendering.

• Solution-makers include experts in scientific and engineering domains, computer science, high-performance computing, data, and business impact consulting.

• Deep engagements with customers and vendors

• Collaboration fosters innovation.

Gwenne Henricks, CTO & VP, Product Development & Global Technology

NCSA IMPACT at Caterpillar Inc.

“The high-performance computing capabilities of today will serve as the industrial workstation of tomorrow. Working with NCSA, we will gain access to HPC that enables simulation realism, where we can uncover hidden insights on our product designs to feed back to our engineering teams, driving better overall solutions. We also gain access to a high level of talent within NCSA conducting their own simulations, which helps our engineers stretch their imaginations to focus on solutions we could achieve for our own products.”

Dell iForge – on-demand and subscriptionApril 2015

CPU

Intel “Haswell" Xeon E5 2680 v3 12-core CPU, 2.9

GHz

Intel "Ivy Bridge" Xeon E5 2680 v2

10-core CPU, 3.1 GHz

AMD “Abu Dhabi” Opteron 6380

8-core CPU, 3.4 GHz

Intel “Ivy Bridge” Xeon E7 4890 v2

15-core CPU, 1.8 GHz

Total Nodes 80 56 16 2

Total x86 Cores 1,920 1,120 512 120

Cores/Node 24 20 32 60

Memory/Node 64 GB, 2.13 GHz 256 GB, 1.86 GHz 256 GB, 1.6 GHz up to 1.5 TB, 1.6 GHz

Storage IBM GPFS, 700 TB (current), 5+ PB (Fall 2015)

Interconnect 40 Gb/sec QDR InfiniBand (current), 100 GB/sec interconnect (Winter 2015)

OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7

• Development, Demonstration, Deployment

• Failure to launch out of R&D is rampant.

• Valley of death is uncertainty.

• Reducing uncertainty and risk is key

• Business drivers pull technology.

• Decision making with error bars

• Feasibility planning acceleration

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Co-Editors:

Merle Giles, USA

Anwar Osseyran, Netherlands

• 40 contributors from 11 countries

• Introduction and history of computing

• Global overview of HPC & HPDA impact

• Business & technical case studies

• Challenges and opportunities

• Science and industry synergies

Closing thoughts

Research organizations must move faster and better than ever before.

Integrated, cost-effective, flexible solutions that scale are critical to solving BIG problems that involve:

• Complex modeling and simulation.

• Big data analytics.

• Large ensemble problems and analyzing multiple data sets.

• Emerging usage models that simplify HPC access.

Take your next steps

to accelerate your high performance computing. Start today

Schedule time with a Dell HPC Solutions Specialist

For more information, visit us online:

• Dell.com/hpc

• HPCatDell.com

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