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The Dell Validated Design (DVD) for Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) is a tested and validated solution. It leverages Dell PowerEdge C6520 and Dell PowerEdge XE8545 with NVIDIA® A100 GPUs, NVIDIA® Clara™ Parabricks® application framework, Dell PowerSwitch networking, and Dell BeeGFS storage. It combines the IT resources required for various forms of HCLS data analysis in a compact, scalable solution. The DVD for HCLS uses a flexible and modular approach to High Performance Computing (HPC) system design that leverages individual building blocks. These integrated, tested, and tuned solutions include the resources required for next-generation sequencing (NGS) secondary analysis while providing an optimal balance of compute density, energy efficiency, and performance. This solution can process 197 50x human WGS per day with 32 C6520s and 24 50x human WGS. It can also process 40 30x WGS per day with 4 GPUs using a single XE8545 with all 4 GPUs. The GPU performance summary for XE8545 can be found here.