Dell Technologies has introduced several new solutions, reference architectures and portfolio advancements, all designed to simplify and accelerate customers’ high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, at Supercomputing 2019.

Thierry Pellegrino, vice president of HPC at Dell Technologies, says, “There’s a lot of value in the data that organizations collect, and HPC and AI are helping organizations get the most out of this data,” said. “We’re committed to building solutions that simplify the use and deployment of these technologies for organizations of all sizes and at all stages of deployment.”

Manish Gupta, Sr. Director and General Manager, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India, comments, "Our new solutions are designed to enable customers at all levels of maturity unlock the most from their data capital, using a confluence of simulation, modelling and machine learning techniques, which are powered by high performance computing. Each offering has been designed to meet the feedback of customers and address future market trends as well as pain points in the adoption of AI across the APJ region.”

Dell Technologies advances storage solutions for HPC

Dell Technologies is expanding its portfolio of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Storage with new, turnkey solutions for ThinkParQ’s BeeGFS. 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.

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 Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, stands as one of the largest NVMe storage systems in the world, currently ranked 8th on the IO-500 list, a benchmark that showcases the world’s fastest storage systems for HPC.

Dell Technologies is also 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 Technologies simplifies path to AI with new Dell EMC Ready Solutions and reference architectures

Dell EMC is expanding its Ready Solutions for AI portfolio with 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.

To further simplify AI deployments, Dell Technologies is also introducing five new reference architectures for optimizing Dell EMC technologies with leading AI partners, such as those from DataRobot, Grid Dynamics, H20.ai, Iguazio and Kubeflow on Red Hat OpenShift. With these architectures, organizations can speed up deployment of AI solutions to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry‑leading Dell EMC converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies.

These architectures are optimized for Intel Xeon Scalable processors and enable organizations to speed up the deployment of AI solutions for training and inference to modernize, automate and transform their data centers using Dell EMC converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies.

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 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 Iguazio, Data Robot, Grid Dynamics and H20.ai have planned availability this quarter.

* NVIDIA V100S GPUs and NVIDIA RTX 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.