Dell expands its HPC portfolio

Dell Technologies expands its high performance computing (HPC) portfolio, providing powerful solutions to help organizations quickly innovate with confidence. Dell’s new offerings include technologies and services to help customers power demanding applications while also making HPC capabilities more accessible to businesses.

“As compute innovation accelerates to keep pace with demand, customers are looking to upgrade their IT environments and harness advanced computing capabilities to speed discovery and insights,” said Rajesh Pohani, vice president of portfolio and product management for PowerEdge, HPC and Core Compute at Dell Technologies. “New Dell Technologies servers and solutions give businesses of all sizes access to technologies once only accessible for the world’s largest research institutions and government agencies, allowing them to tackle HPC, ease AI adoption and propel their businesses forward.” 

Dell PowerEdge servers champion advanced modeling and datasets 

New Dell PowerEdge servers enable organizations to embrace AI and HPC initiatives for faster, smarter results. The new systems, developed in collaboration with Intel and NVIDIA, employ Smart Cooling technology and enable organizations to use AI for model training, HPC modeling and simulation, core-to-edge inference, and data visualization.

• PowerEdge XE9680 – Dell’s first high performance 8x GPU server leverages eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs or NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, resulting in optimal performance, in an air-cooled design. The server combines two upcoming 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and eight NVIDIA GPUs, to help deliver maximum performance for AI workloads.
• PowerEdge XE9640 – Next-generation 2U performance optimized 4x GPU PowerEdge server, combining Intel Xeon processors and Intel Data Center GPU Max Series. With fully direct liquid cooling, the system is designed to reduce energy costs with greater rack density. 
• PowerEdge XE8640 – Air-cooled 4U performance optimized 4x GPU server featuring four NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA NVLink technology, along with two upcoming 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Designed to help businesses develop, train and deploy machine learning models to accelerate and automate analysis.

“As the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing company, with 27 cloud data center locations globally, it’s essential that we deploy technology to support the most demanding AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Constant, the creator of Vultr. “Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU and A100 Tensor Core GPU will provide the capabilities needed to deliver maximum performance and value.”

Dell APEX High Performance Computing Speeds Innovation and Discovery

HPC is driving growth and new insights across industries; however, organizations are often faced with time, budget and skills restraints.

Dell APEX High Performance Computing enables organizations to run large-scale, compute-intensive HPC workloads as-a-Service in a fully managed, subscription-based environment. Customers can select between solutions for life sciences workloads and solutions for manufacturing workloads.

Dell APEX High Performance Computing provides customers with everything they need to run HPC workloads, including an HPC cluster manager, a container orchestrator, a workload manager, and underlying HPC-optimized hardware configurations. The service provides the flexible capacity and security needed to meet changing workload requirements and achieve faster results while getting the most out of their HPC investments, all in one, three, or five-year subscriptions.

Adopt quantum technologies more easily into existing infrastructure 

Organizations can start taking advantage of accelerated compute through quantum technology with the Dell Quantum Computing Solution. Customers can use this solution to quickly develop algorithmic approaches to complex use cases, as well as to accelerate chemistry and materials simulation, natural language processing, and machine learning.

This scalable, hybrid classical-quantum platform makes use of the Dell classic quantum simulator, which is built on PowerEdge servers. The solution integrates quantum computing into existing classical computational infrastructure using IonQ quantum technology. The fully integrated Qiskit Dell Runtime and IonQ Aria software enable quantum workloads to run with on-premises or cloud-based quantum acceleration.

Implement HPC for faster, more efficient risk assessment

The fast-paced global financial industry requires access to technologies that can provide measurable ROI. New Dell Validated Design for HPC – Risk Assessment runs data-intensive simulations on HPC systems, such as GPU-accelerated Dell PowerEdge servers, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, and NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager® software, to analyze risk and return faster.

The validated design provides financial institutions with optimal system performance and efficiency configurations. Dell HPC engineers and workload experts create, validate, and tune these configurations for this specific use case. As a result, modular IT building blocks enable faster design, configuration, and ordering with a single point of contact for services.

Peter Rutten, research vice president, Worldwide Infrastructure practice, IDC, said “Accelerated compute technology helps business get all the value they can from the massive amounts of data they generate on a daily basis. Dell Technologies is seizing the opportunity with new accelerated Dell PowerEdge servers and solutions that can help customers tackle demanding performance intensive computing workloads.”

Availability

• Dell PowerEdge XE9680, XE8640 and XE9640 have planned global availability in the first half of 2023. 
• Dell Validated Design for HPC – Risk Assessment is available globally now.