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Dell Validated Design for Government HPC, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics: Mellanox Option
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Introduction
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Introduction

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Introduction

  • This white paper presents options for customers to address infrastructure challenges by leveraging Dell’s Validated Designs to optimize design architectures that meet their specific requirements while saving time, resources, and money. The document is addresses HPC compute centric workloads.. The design approach uses building block options for servers, networking, and storage to provide flexibility in design architecture. Baseline designs for traditional HPC workloads serve as design starting points. Performance benchmarking is presented. NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager software is used to build and manage clusters as a single entity. Table 1 describes the functional components and building block options.

    Table 1.      Building block components

       Functional component type

    Building block component options

    Infrastructure servers

     

    AMD: R6625

    Intel: R660

     

    Compute servers

    AMD: R6625

    Intel: C6620, R660

    Accelerators

    poweredge-server-gpu-matrix.pdf (delltechnologies.com)

    Storage

    PowerScale Isilon F900

    Dell HPC BeeGFS

    Networking

    NVIDIA Mellanox HDR and NDR: QM8700/8790, QM9700/9790

    PowerSwitch N3248TE-ON

    InfiniBand Gateway

    NVIDIA Skyway (InfiniBand to Ethernet)

    Cluster Management Software

    Bright Cluster Manager 9.2