Scientists and engineers are looking for innovative ways to accelerate
applications and shorten computational cycles. Dell is helping them by
strengthening its portfolio of PowerEdge servers, storage expansion
platforms and integrated solutions designed to meet the demands of the
most compute intensive environments in education, government and
industry, including the energy, financial services and life sciences
sectors.
Innovation Meeting Customer Needs
To help customers deploy complex data subsystems, and workstations that
put incredible computational power into a users hands, Dell continues
to invest heavily in and support innovative high performance computing
(HPC) technologies that include GPGPU (General-Purpose computation on
Graphics Processing Units) acceleration solutions, and storage offerings.
These new Dell HPC solutions include:
The PowerEdge C6105, a 2U, 4-system solution where each
system is a 2-socket AMD-based server that delivers a low TCO and high
power efficiency for scaled out applications in a maximum-density
chassis. The C6105 features hot-swap server nodes and hard disk drives
along with redundant power supplies making it ideal for energy and
budget constrained scale-out environments.
The PowerEdge
C410x, an external PCI Express (PCIe) expansion chassis that
connects 1-8 host nodes to 1-16 PCIe devices to get results fast,
while saving on space, weight and cost. The system does not have CPUs
or memory but is designed for efficiently powering and cooling GPUs
and other PCIe devices. External PCIe chassis provide more flexibility
and density while saving power and reducing costs compared to internal
server GPUs.
On the measure of single-precision floating point performance, a
PowerEdge C410x PCIe expansion chassis loaded with 16
NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPU modules delivers up to 16.5 Teraflops
of computing throughput.1
The PowerEdge
M610x, bringing a new set of capabilities to Dells blade
portfolio providing customers database acceleration and expanded
compute capabilities by integrating two x16 PCIe slots in a dense 2S
blade form factor. Customers can take advantage of NVIDIAs new Tesla
class GPUs or Fusion-IOs ioDrive Duo drives.
Dell is also offering the new high performance Tesla C2050 GPU
computing processor on the Dell
Precision T7500 workstation, transforming it into a personal
super computer for general purpose scientific and engineering
computing. The Dell Precision T7500 along with the Tesla C2050
provides an ideal platform for oil & gas, financial, life sciences,
academic and governmental organizations running compute intensive CUDA
applications.
Partner technologies and innovations, such as Platform Computing Cluster
Manager 2.0.1, Dell Edition, which allows users to quickly
deploy, run and manage heterogeneous Linux clusters with ease. In
addition, Dell is working with Terascala
to introduce standardized storage platforms, targeted for customers
utilizing Lustre file systems.
Availability and Integration
All Dell HPC solutions have been tested and validated so users can trust
that the solution is not just a sum of parts but a tightly integrated,
ready-to-run platform. The newly validated solution stack including,
Platform Cluster Manager, HPC Storage Solution, C2050 with the Precision
C7500 workstations, PowerEdge C410x and M610x servers are available
immediately while the C6105 will begin shipping in the near future.
Enabling Research
This portfolio will support academic institutions like the University of
Colorado at Boulder and The University of Kentucky as well as public and
private sector research organizations committed to increasing HPC
efficiency in order to conduct ground breaking research. Researchers at
the University of Colorado at Boulder are using Dell HPC solutions to
study areas of earth-system science, biotechnology and renewable energy
while at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, studies are aimed at
simulation modeling and data analysis to explore, understand and predict
climate change.
Quotes
Steve Conway, Research Vice President, High Performance Computing,
IDC & Steering Committee Member, HPC User Forum (www.hpcuserforum.com)
Dell has become one of the leading players in the worldwide HPC market
by delivering increasingly dense, scalable platforms and storage systems
to buyers in the government, academic and industrial sectors. IDC
expects the HPC market to exhibit healthy growth over the next five
years, including new areas such as cloud computing and high-end business
analytics, and Dell is well positioned to benefit from this growth.
Phil Webster, Chief, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centers Computational
and Information Sciences and Technology Office
When we debuted the NASA Center for Climate Simulation this spring, we
anticipated expanding our high-performance computing capabilities to
meet the growing needs of NASAs earth and space science user community.
We chose to use Dell PowerEdge servers based upon both the commitment of
Dell to the HPC community and the ability of their systems to scale with
our program over time.
Additional Information:
Dell
HPC Solutions
Dell
PowerEdge C6105 Overview
Customer
Wins
Dell
HPC Blogs
Dell
Blade Server Solutions
Dell
Cloud Solutions
Dell
Precision
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1 Based on information provided by NVIDIA at NVIDIA
Tesla M2050 Fermi cards. Dell makes no warranties or representations
regarding the accuracy of this information. Any questions or comments
regarding this information should be addressed to NVIDIA. Actual
performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing
variability.
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Source: Business Wire