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Dell Validated Design for Government
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Introduction
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Introduction

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Introduction

  • This white paper supports customers who are facing infrastructure challenges by leveraging Dell’s validated design configurations as starting points for design solutions. This solution can help customers save time, resources, and money.

    Two baseline designs address the intersection of HPC, AI, and data analytics workloads with a single system, while a third baseline design addresses dedicated systems to support traditional HPC compute intensive workloads. This design approach leverages building block options for servers, networking, storage, and software to provide flexibility in design architecture. The baseline designs are benchmarked for traditional HPC workloads and AI workloads. Bright Cluster Manager software from Bright Computing is used to build and manage clusters for HPC and Data Science as a single entity. Table 1 lists the functional building blocks.

    Table 1.      Building block components

    Building block functional components

    Specifications

    Infrastructure Servers

    AMD: R7525, R6525

    Intel: R750, R650

    Compute Servers

    AMD: XE8545, R7525, R6525, C6525

    Intel: R750xa, R650, C6520

    Accelerators

    NVIDIA A100 40G/80G, A10, T4

    AMD Instinct MI100

    Intel PAC FPGA

    Storage

    PowerScale Isilon 800

    Dell HPC BeeGFS

    Dell HPC NSS

    Dell HPC Pixstor

    Networking

    Nvidia QM8700 (HDR IB)

    PowerSwitch N3248TE-ON

    Cluster Management Software

    Bright Cluster Manager 9.1