This document provides an overview of the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd used as a dedicated Milestone video management software (VMS) server, with NVIDIA GPU hardware acceleration.
The R740xd is the latest generation Dell high disk intensity platform, which also provides support for GPU adapters. It is an ideal platform for the safety and security industry. Milestone has also introduced support for GPU decoding on their video management software. The tests include various scalable configurations across disk types, populated CPUs, the introduction of GPU, and how it scales.
- Fully populated SATA drive configuration, single CPU (No GPU)
- Fully populated SATA drive configuration, dual CPU (No GPU)
- Fully populated SAS drive configuration, dual CPU (No GPU)
- Mixed DISK, SSD and SAS, single GPU
- Mixed DISK, SSD and SAS, dual GPU