Tue, 17 Jan 2023 08:43:16 -0000
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This joint paper, written by Dell Technologies in collaboration with Intel, outlines the key components of the Intel® Security Solution for Fortanix Confidential AI and the available configurations based on the latest generation of Dell PowerEdge servers.
Introduction
Cybersecurity has become more tightly integrated into business objectives globally, with zero trust security strategies being established to ensure that the technologies being implemented to address business priorities are secure.
Organizations need to accelerate business insights and decision intelligence more securely as they optimize the hardware-software stack. In fact, the seriousness of cyber risks to organizations has become central to business risk as a whole, making it a board-level issue.
Data is your organization’s most valuable asset, but how do you secure that data in today’s hybrid cloud world? How do you keep your sensitive data or proprietary machine learning (ML) algorithms safe with hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) or containers running on a single server?
The Intel® Security Solution for Fortanix Confidential AI, built in collaboration with Fortanix and Dell Technologies, helps contribute to your zero trust security strategy. It is an enterprise-level, high-performance, security-enabled solution that encrypts data while it is in use by isolating data and code in Intel® Software Guard Extension (Intel® SGX) enclaves, without changing underlying software applications.
Key components
The Intel® Security Solution for Fortanix Confidential AI enables confidential computing so that AI models and data can be shared without exposing intellectual property and sensitive data. This solution:
Whether you are deploying on-premises in the cloud, or at the edge, it is increasingly critical to protect data and maintain regulatory compliance. Accelerate performance across the fastest-growing workload types in AI, analytics, networking, storage and HPC, and help protect your business and innovate with confidence.
Available configurations
Table 1. Intel® Security Solution for Fortanix Confidential AI configurations
Component | Base configuration | Plus configuration* |
Platform | Dell PowerEdge R650 1U rack server, supporting up to 8 NVMe drives in RAID configuration | |
CPU | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6348 (28 cores at 2.6 GHz) with 64 GB/CPU Intel® SGX enclave capacity | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8368 (38 cores at 2.4 GHz) with 512 GB/CPU Intel® SGX enclave capacity |
DRAM | 256 GB (16 x 16 GB DDR4-3200) | 512 GB (16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200) (supports options up to 4 TB) |
Boot device | Dell Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS)-S2 with 2 x 480 GB M.2 Serial ATA (SATA) (RAID 1) | |
Storage adapter | Dell PERC H755N front NVMe RAID controller | |
Storage | 2 x (up to 8 x) 1.6 TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG SED Drive, U2 Gen4 | |
NIC | Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXV for OCP3 (dual-port 25 Gb) |
* Larger enclave capacity for securing bigger AI models and end-to-end AI workloads
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Tue, 17 Jan 2023 08:32:07 -0000
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This joint paper, written by Dell Technologies, in collaboration with Intel®, describes the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful Elasticsearch deployment and recommends configurations based on the most recent 15th Generation PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings.
Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. This proposal contains recommended configurations for Elasticsearch clusters on the Kubernetes platform (Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) operator) running on 15th Generation Dell PowerEdge with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Ice Lake).
Key Considerations
Elasticsearch cluster on Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes) platform | ||||
| OpenShift Control Plane Master Nodes (three nodes required) | Elasticsearch Master / Ingest / Hot tier data nodes (minimum of three nodes required) |
Elasticsearch Warm tier data nodes (optional) |
Elasticsearch Cold tier data nodes (optional) |
Functions |
OpenShift services, Kubernetes services | Elasticsearch roles: master, ingest, hot tier data Additional services, such as Kibana |
Elasticsearch roles: warm tier data |
Elasticsearch roles: cold tier data |
Platform |
Dell PowerEdge R650 chassis with up to 10x2.5” NVMe Direct Drives | Dell PowerEdge R750 chassis with up to 12x3.5” HDD with RAID | ||
CPU | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326 processor (16 cores @ 2.9GHz) or better |
2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6338 processor (32 cores @ 2.0GHz) |
2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5318Y processor (24 cores @ 2.1GHz) |
2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5318N processor (24 cores @ 2.1GHz) |
DRAM | 128GB (16x 8GB DDR4- 3200) |
256 GB (16 x 16 GB DDR4-3200) | 128 GB (16 x 8 GB DDR4-3200) | |
Boot Device | Dell BOSS-S2 with 2x 240GB or 2x 480GB M.2 SATA SSD (RAID1) | |||
Storage adapter |
Not needed for all-NVMe configurations | Dell PERC H755 SAS/SATA RAID adapter | ||
Storage (NVMe) |
1x 1.6TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed-Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 |
2x (up to 10x) 3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed-Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 |
10x 7.68TB Enterprise NVMe Read-Intensive AG Drive U.2 Gen4 |
up to 12x 16TB / 18TB / 20TB 12Gbps SAS ISE 3.5” HDD, 7200RPM |
NIC | Intel E810-XXVDA2 for OCP3 (dual-port 25GbE) |
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