Dell technologies introduces new solutions to advance high performance computing and ai innovation
At supercomputing 2019, dell technologies is introducing several new solutions, reference architectures and portfolio advancements all designed to simplify and accelerate customers' high performance computing (hpc) and artificial intelligence (ai) efforts. dell technologies is expanding its portfolio of dell emc ready solutions for hpc storage with new, turnkey solutions for thinkparq's beegfs and arcastream's pixstor file systems. offering a combination of technology partners' software with dell emc hardware, networking and support, based on engineered and tested designs, dell emc ready solutions for hpc storage simplify and speed deployment and solutions management. dell emc ready solutions for hpc beegfs storage, with thinkparq's software-defined parallel file system, speeds-up input/output (i/o)-intensive workloads with the ability to scale from small clusters to enterprise-class systems on premises or in the cloud. additionally, dell emc ready solutions for hpc pixstor storage offers a high-performance parallel file system, enabling data management at scale with the ability to perform archive and analytics in place. the solution also includes a validated, scalable design with object, tape and cloud tiering capabilities using pixstor ngenea along with poweredge servers, powerswitch and mellanox® networking, powervault storage, supported by dell technologies deployment and support services. with these ready solutions, customers have seen improvements in both performance and scale. for example: using the dell emc ready solutions for hpc beegfs storage for its two petabytes of all nvme storage, the commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation (csiro), australia's national science agency, stands as one of the larger nvme storage systems in the world, currently ranked 8th on the io-500 list, a benchmark that showcases storage systems for hpc. at imperial college london, the dell emc ready solutions for hpc pixstor storage can simultaneously serve its existing 2,500 node high-performance computing system and delivers over 20gb/s of throughput with no loss in interactive usage performance. dell technologies also is introducing expanded capacity for dell emc powervault me4, offering 16tb hdds that allow customers to scale to 4pb in 15u rack space – a 25% improvement in density, allowing for more hpc storage capacity in a smaller space. powervault brings scale, bandwidth and built-in data protection to hpc configurations with management simplicity. dell emc is expanding its ready solutions for ai portfolio with an all-new validated design for the domino data science platform. developed in collaboration with domino data lab, the dell emc validated design enables data scientists to develop and deliver models faster while providing it with a centralized, extensible platform spanning the entire data science lifecycle –accelerating ideation and deployment. new 400gbe networking switch for compute and storage intensive workloads. joining the dell emc powerswitch z-series portfolio, dell is unveiling the dell emc powerswitch z9332f-on, a 400gbe open networking switch designed for high performance workloads. as an open networking pioneer, dell technologies delivers on the promise of software-defined networking, making network operations more flexible, programmable and easier to manage. the dell emc powerswitch z9332f-on is purpose-built for cloud service provider data center networks with intensive compute and storage traffic, such as hpc, ai and streaming video. the new switch also delivers four times the throughput, double the price performance and near double the power efficiency of existing 100gbe platforms. dell technologies introduces new nvidia gpu and intel fpga options across its server portfolio. dell technologies is also unveiling nvidia® t4 tensor core gpus as a new accelerator option for the dell emc dss 8440 server. with up to 16 accelerators, this offers high capacity, high performance machine learning inference with exceptional energy efficiency (70 watts per gpu). this is designed for multi-tenancy environments that need to share machine learning resources among users or departments. dell technologies also is introducing new gpu and fpga support for its poweredge servers, including: nvidia tesla v100s gpu with up to 25% more bandwidth to communicate directly with mellanox infiniband interconnect and poweredge express flash nvme performance pcie ssds for faster data transfers. nvidia rtx gpus, designed to boost performance at a fraction of the cost, space and power requirements of a traditional render farm to produce high-quality content faster than ever before. intel fpga programmable acceleration card d5005 in dell emc poweredge r740xd and r940xa servers to boost inferencing, streaming analytics, video transcoding, and financial and genomic applications. availability: the dell emc powervault me4 with 16tb hdds will be available in early 2020. ready solutions for ai - design for domino data science platform will be globally available in december 2019. ai reference architectures for data robot, grid dynamics, h20.ai and iguazio have planned availability this quarter. nvidia v100s gpus will be available on dell emc poweredge servers in early 2020. the intel fpga programmable acceleration card (pac) d5005 will be available in early 2020. all other announced offerings and updates are globally available now.
