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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 designed to address HPC, AI, and data analytics workloads with a single system or separate systems depending on customer needs. This design approach uses building block options for servers, networking, storage, and software to provide flexibility in design architecture, though not every workload requires the presence of every component. Baseline designs benchmarked for traditional HPC workloads and baseline designs benchmarked for AI workloads serve as design starting points. Omnia, developed by Dell Technologies, is used to build, and manage the cluster as a single entity. The table below describes the functional components and building block options.
Functional component type | Building block component options |
Infrastructure servers | AMD: R6615 |
Compute servers | AMD: R6625 |
Accelerators | For a complete list of available accelerators, see the PowerEdge server GPU matrix |
Storage | PowerScale Isilon F900 |
Networking | NVIDIA Mellanox HDR and NDR: QM8700/8790, QM9700/9790 |
InfiniBand Gateway | NVIDIA Skyway (InfiniBand to Ethernet) |
Cluster Management Software | Omnia 1.5 |