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The Validated Design for HPC Digital Manufacturing is designed using a flexible building block architecture. This architecture allows an HPC system to be optimally designed for specific end-user requirements, while still making use of standardized, domain-specific system recommendations. The available building blocks are infrastructure servers, storage and networking. Configuration recommendations are provided for each of the building blocks that provide good performance for typical applications and workloads within the manufacturing domain. This section describes the available building blocks along with the recommended server configurations.
With this flexible building block approach, appropriately sized HPC clusters can be designed based on specific workloads and use-case requirements. Figure 1 shows three example HPC clusters designed using the Validated Design for HPC Digital Manufacturing architecture.