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Dell Innovation to Advance and Democratize High Performance Computing, Accelerate Mainstream Adoption
Dell (News - Alert) today unveiled sweeping advancements to its industry-leading high
performance computing (HPC) portfolio. These advances include innovative
new systems designed to simplify mainstream adoption of HPC and data
analytics in research, manufacturing and genomics. Dell also unveiled
expansions to its HPC Innovation Lab and showcased next-generation
technologies including the Intel® Omni-Path Fabric.
HPC is becoming increasingly critical to how organizations of all sizes
innovate and compete. Many organizations lack the in-house expertise to
configure, build and deploy an HPC system without losing focus on their
core science, engineering and analytic missions. As an example,
according to the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 98 percent
of all products will be designed digitally by 2020, yet 95 percent of
the center's 300,000 manufacturing companies have little or no HPC
expertise.
"HPC is no longer a tool only for the most sophisticated researchers.
We're taking what we've learned from working with some of the most
advanced, sophisticated universities and research institutions and
customizing that for delivery to mainstream enterprises," said Jim
Ganthier, vice president and general manager, Engineered Solutions and
Cloud, Dell. "As the leading provider of systems in this space, Dell
continues to break down barriers and democratize HPC. We're seeing
customers in even more industry verticals embrace its power."
Dell Accelerating Mainstream Adoption of HPC
Dell announced the new Dell HPC System Portfolio, a family of HPC and
data analytics solutions combining the flexibility of custom systems
with the simplicity, reliability and value of a preconfigured,
factory-built system that includes:
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Simplified design, configuration, and ordering in a matter of hours
instead of weeks;
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Domain-specific design that's designed and tuned by Dell engineers and
domain experts for specific science, engineering and analytics
workloads using flexible industry-standard building blocks; and
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Fully tested and validated systems by Dell engineering with a single
point of hardware support and a wide range of additional service
options.
New application-specific Dell HPC System Portfolio offerings include:
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Dell HPC System for Genomic Data Analysis is designed to meet
the needs of genomic research organizations to enable cost-effective
bioinformatics centers delivering results and identifying treatments
in clinically relevant timeframes while maintaining compliance and
protecting confidential data. The platform is a result of key
learnings from Dell's relationship with Translational Genomics
Research Institute (TGen) to help clinical researchers and doctors
expand the reach and impact of the world's first Food and Drug
Administration-approved precision medicine trial for pediatric cancer.
TGen has been able to improve outcomes for more patients by creating
targeted treatments at least one week faster than they could be
accomplished previously.
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Dell HPC System for Manufacturing is designed for customers
running complex manufacturing design simulations using workstations,
clusters or both. Applicable use cases include Finite Element Analysis
for structural analysis using ANSYS Mechanical & Computational Fluid
Dynamics for predicting fluid behavior in designs utilizing ANSYS
Fluent or CD-adapco STAR-CCM (News - Alert)+.
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Dell HPC System for Research is designed as a foundation, or
reference architecture, for baseline research systems and numerous
applications involving complex scientific analysis. This standard
cluster configuration can be used as a starting point for Dell's
customers and systems engineers to quickly develop research systems
that match the unique needs of research customers requiring systems
for a wide variety of research agendas.
Dell Accelerating HPC Technology Innovation and Partnerships
Dell also showcased new investments in capabilities, partnerships,
programs and technologies designed to chart a course for advancing
innovation from the desktop to petaflops with future-ready systems.
Dell announced a new expansion of its Dell HPC Innovation Lab in
cooperation with Intel specifically for support of its Intel®
Scalable System Framework. This multi-million dollar expansion to
the Austin, Texas, facility includes additional domain expertise,
infrastructure and technologists. The lab is designed to unlock the
capabilities and commercialize the benefits of advanced processing,
network and storage technologies as well as enable open standards across
the industry.
Dell and Intel Partnership
Beyond becoming the first major original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to
join the Intel Fabric
Builders program, Dell is working closely with Intel to support its Intel®
Scalable System Framework, which includes Intel®
Omni-Path Fabric technology, next-generation Intel® Xeon®
processors, the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor family, and the Intel®
Enterprise Edition for Lustre. Announcements include:
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New Dell Networking H-Series switches and adapters for PowerEdge
servers featuring the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture. These provide a
next-generation fabric technology designed for HPC deployments. The
architecture includes advanced features such as traffic flow
optimization, packet integrity protection and dynamic lane scaling
allowing for finer-grained control on the fabric level to enable high
resiliency, high performance and optimized traffic movement.
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Dell and Intel support for the Linux Foundation's (News - Alert) OpenHPC
community. The community is designed to provide a common platform on
which end-users can collaborate and innovate to simplify the
complexity of installation, configuration and ongoing maintenance of
implementing a custom software stack and easing a path to exascale.
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Dell will showcase many components of the Intel® Scalable System
Framework including Intel® Omni-Path Architecture, Intel® Enterprise
Edition of Lustre, and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor family. In addition,
Dell is hosting numerous confidential advisory sessions with customers
at the show gathering insights to help optimize its implementation of
systems using next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™.
"We're excited to collaborate with Dell to bring advanced systems to
market early next year using the Intel® Scalable System Framework," said
Charles Wuischpard, vice president and general manager of HPC Platform
Group at Intel. "Dell's position as our largest and fastest-growing
customer for Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre, their work on
Omni-Path Architecture and next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™, and their
initiatives to expand the Dell Innovation Lab demonstrate their
commitment to rapidly expanding the ecosystem for HPC."
Dell and Mellanox Partnership
Dell and Mellanox Technologies have a long history of collaboration and
leadership in the HPC community. Together they have already published
numerous best industry practices and application case studies with the
HPC Advisory Council demonstrating superior application scalability and
performance. Dell and Mellanox have been contributing HPC clusters to
the HPC Advisory Council for several years, enabling the HPC community
with best-in-class systems for application optimizations and overall HPC
outreach and education.
Dell and Mellanox announced additional investment in Dell's existing HPC
Innovation Lab to provide an end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand
supercomputer system. The system is designed to showcase extreme
scalability by leveraging the offloading capabilities and advanced
acceleration engines of the Mellanox interconnect as well as provide
application specific benchmarking, and characterizations for customers
and partners.
"With this new investment, Dell's HPC Innovation Lab will now enable new
levels of applications efficiency and innovative research capabilities.
Together we will help build the solutions of the future," said Gilad
Shainer, vice president of marketing, Mellanox Technologies.
Customer and Community Momentum (News - Alert)
Dell announced today that it is continuing to deploy HPC solutions
across the globe to help organizations drive scientific advancement as
well as economic and global competitiveness. HPC is high on many
countries' national agenda because it is vital to interests such as
science, industrial productivity, climate change, energy, security and
other industry verticals. Additionally, these HPC initiatives are
increasingly converging with big data and cloud initiatives.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center
(SDSC) at the University of California,
San Diego recently launched its new Comet
petascale supercomputer powered by Dell PowerEdge C6320 servers. Comet
is designed for modest-sized projects such as economics, genomics and
social sciences, which represent a great amount of research and
potential scientific impact.
"Comet provides 'HPC for the
99 percent'-serving as a gateway to discovery for a much larger
research community so we needed a solid hardware foundation," said
Michael Norman, SDSC director and principal investigator for the Comet
project. "We chose the Dell PowerEdge C6320s because of Dell's
reputation in the HPC space, its leading hardware design and
innovations, and its ease of deployment. We're excited to be working
with Dell to help accelerate discovery by expanding access to
researchers who have not traditionally relied on supercomputers."
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The Texas Advanced Computing
Center at The University of Texas
at Austin provides comprehensive advanced computing resources and
support services to researchers in Texas and across the U.S. The
center specializes in high-performance computing, scientific
visualization, data analysis and storage systems, software, research
and development and portal interfaces.
"The mission of TACC
is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the
application of advanced computing technologies," said Tommy Minyard,
director of Advanced Computing Systems at TACC. "Dell technology and
support is integral to the core of several of our supercomputing
clusters, including Stampede and Wrangler. With Dell, we can push the
envelope of computational capabilities, enabling breakthroughs never
before imagined."
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Two years after the HiPerGator
supercomputer was introduced at the University
of Florida, it is now being expanded to add capacity and
capabilities with 30,000 cores in approximately 1,000 nodes made by
Dell. HiPerGator performs complex calculations and data analyses for
researchers to find life-saving drugs, make decades-long weather
forecasts and improve armor for troops.
"The adoption of
HiPerGator by the university community has been rapid and across all
disciplines, making it clear that an expansion of capacity would be
needed to meet current demand and expected growth," said Dr. Erik
Deumens, Director of UF Research Computing, University of Florida.
"This expansion is a huge undertaking and we are working with Dell to
give our researchers' high-impact research projects a competitive edge
with faster processing."
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The Centre for High Performance
Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa is currently in the
process of upgrading its system to provide more simulation and
data-centric science capabilities. For this upgrade, the Center had
four constraints: physical data center space, power, cooling and
budget.
"The key aims of the petascale system are to
support and enable CHPC to remain globally competitive while
accelerating Africa's socio-economic uplift," said Dr. Happy Sithole,
Director, Centre for High Performance Computing. "The Dell solution
was able to meet the performance requirement within our constraints as
well as provide a roadmap for further scale - scalability and
flexibility are key tenets of the system's design."
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Jetstream, scheduled to
enter production in January 2016 at Indiana
University, is a new and creative approach to delivering
computational resources to an increasingly diverse community of
scientific research and education. A user-friendly cloud environment,
Jetstream is designed to give researchers access to interactive
computing and data analysis resources on demand, whenever and wherever
they want to analyze their data.
"Jetstream is a
first-of-its-kind cloud environment aimed for everyday use by
practicing scientists. Jetstream will bring to XSEDE and the national
research community a user-friendly cloud environment that allows
researchers to analyze their data now - whenever now is for that
researcher," said Craig Stewart, Executive Director, Indiana
University Pervasive Technology Institute and Associate Dean, Research
Technologies, Indiana University (News - Alert). "With Dell hardware at the core, we
can provide interactive computing and data analysis resources for
science and engineering research across all areas of National Science
Foundation-supported activity."
Availability
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The Dell HPC System for Genomic Data Analysis is available today.
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The Dell HPC Systems for Manufacturing and Research will be available
in early 2016.
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The Dell Networking H-series switches, adapters and software based on
the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture will be available in the first half
of 2016.
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