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The newer platform, built on a Dell EMC PowerEdge R750, demonstrated a 7x increase in performance over the older generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd platform, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. The newer Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ platform processed 7x more NOPM than the previous-generation platform
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 server is a full-featured enterprise server designed to deliver high performance for demanding workloads. Powered by 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the PowerEdge R750 server is a dual-socket/2U rack server with support for eight channels of memory per CPU, and up to 32 DDR4 DIMMs at 3,200 MT/s speeds. In addition, to address substantial throughput improvements, the PowerEdge R750 supports PCIe® Gen4 and up to 24 NVM Express® (NVMe®) drives (with an option for four additional rear-mounted drives) with improved air-cooling features and optional Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) to support increasing power and thermal requirements. This makes the PowerEdge R750 server an ideal server for data center standardization on a wide range of workloads including database and analytics, HPC, traditional corporate IT, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and artificial intelligence (AI)/ML environments that require performance, extensive storage, and graphics processing unit (GPU) support. For more information, visit https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/ProductDocs/en/poweredge-R750-spec-sheet.pdf.