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Dell HPC Solutions based on Intel® Xeon® processors can literally re-write the rules for your organization. Imagine cutting weeks or months from your research process as your designers, engineers, and staff can compute large amounts of information in minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Reducing this "wait time" means being shorter design cycles and faster findings for your research!



  • Dell and The University of Cambridge Deliver HPC Power to Researchers
    Dell and The University of Cambridge announced the opening of the Dell | Cambridge High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre. This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA's leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community.
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  • NASA Center for Climate Simulation Expands Research Capabilities with Dell High-Performance Computing Technology
    Dell selected to provide solution valued at up to $5.1M for the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The solution will include Dell’s new PowerEdge C6100 servers customized for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
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  • HPC Solutions Improve Computing Environments For Reservoir Simulation
    Maximize your cluster's interconnect technologies for best HPC system efficiency.
    Learn More >

  • Managing Storage is a Big Challenge
    Joseph Kremer, President, Public for Dell Asia Pacific Japan region, discuses the growth of the HPC market and Dell's key focus areas and challenges in the Indian market.
    Learn More >

  • Industry Insights: What you should know about Power and Performance Efficiency!
    This Q/A session features several industry experts' views into an area of HPC that is weighing on many people's minds as datacenter environments face increasing pressure to expand capabilities while controlling costs.
    Learn More >

  • New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
    New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution, a storage solution for Linux clusters designed to enable efficiencies in high-performance computing environments by scaling to support massive amounts of data.

    Learn More >
    Press Release >

  • Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
    The Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is a unique new storage solution providing high throughput Lustre-based storage as an appliance. It delivers a great combination of performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
    Learn More >


  • Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Barcelona TECH
    UPC needed to boost computing power at two departments to help students and researchers continue their work. Working with Dell, UPC built two high performance computing (HPC) environments based on Dell servers.

    Spanish Version >


  • University of Louisville Case Study
    The University of Louisville's J. B. Speed School of Engineering needed a visualization wall to display gene, protein, and metabolite sequences, and a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to investigate energy usage in building interiors. After Dell's installation of a visualization wall and HPC cluster, the school was able to boost its compute power tenfold and do visualization on the fly.
    Learn More >


  • University of Calgary Case Study
    The University of Calgary needed to optimize its computing power to research the phenomena involved in the transition between disordered and ordered states, such as the freezing of water into ice. By implementing a Dell and Intel high-performance computing cluster system, it gained 1.5 times the processing capacity than it would have from competitive solutions—and avoided a $50,000 power upgrade in the process.
    Learn More >


  • J. Craig Venter Institute Case Study
    J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a world leader in genomic research. Studying genetic sequencing requires some serious number-crunching capabilities, along with a whole lot of storage. Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers helped reduce cost-per-gig while improving performance.
    Learn More >


  • Green Efficiency
    To build more wind farms overseas, RES (Renewable Energy Systems) needed high performance computing. It wanted a power-efficient solution that was compact and easy to manage.
    Learn More >



  • Using Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays as NFS Backend Storage in HPC Environments
    This paper evaluates the performance of the Dell PowerVault MD1200 storage arrays when they are used as backend NFS storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an HPC environment and discusses workloads that might benefit from such a solution.
    Learn More >

  • MATLAB on the TeraGrid
    Cornell Center for Advanced Computing and its partners demonstrate seamless access to a software utility with the National Science Foundation-funded "MATLAB on the TeraGrid" project.
    Learn More >

  • New Medical Archiving and High Performance Computing Solutions Designed to Boost Healthcare, Rese arch Efficiencies
    Dell unveiled solutions to enable healthcare, higher-education and government organizations to better use technology to manage data, conduct research and fulfill their missions in a more efficient and secure manner.
    Learn More >

  • Breaking Down Barriers to Knowledge
    Florida State University needed to replace its older shared-research computing platform that had become difficult to expand and not user-friendly and provide HPC research facilities for a wide range of researchers.
    Learn How >



  • Dell HPC Solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences
    Dell is powering breakthrough research computing for Life Sciences organizations that supports today's evolutionary, life-changing discoveries.
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  • Cluster Performance: It's not just about clock rate anymore
    TACC's Dan Stanzione & Tommy Minyard uncover real life application performance gains achieved through Intel's boost in memory bandwidth with its Nehalem arch.
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  • Dell Partners with the University of Cambridge to Deliver Power of HPC to Researchers
    This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA's leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community. The Centre will combine large-scale, commodity-based HPC infrastructure with experienced and specialized research know-how, to overcome the traditional barriers of entry to HPC.
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  • Enabling Discovery Events Translate into Community Forums
    Dell's HPC solutions team has been touring cities across the U.S. inviting local researchers from each tour leg to partake. The result has been rare and valuable discussions about the research being accomplished at a variety of institutions.
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  • Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution Part I
    In the world of HPC (High-Performance Computing), storage I/O is the bottleneck for many applications. Dell has partnered with Terascala in an attempt to alleviate this bottleneck.
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  • Scientists Leverage Experimental MATLAB Resources Powered by Dell
    Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing’s Dr. David Lifka describes how researchers are seamlessly scaling desktop MATLAB applications up to a 512-core Dell PowerEdge cluster at Cornell to accelerate data analysis and discovery.
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  • Architecting HPC Systems for Fault Tolerance and Reliability: Part 8 - Compute Nodes
    The real work of an HPC cluster happens on the compute nodes. Most of the other subsystems in a cluster are there to support the computational needs of the compute nodes.
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  • Real-World Examples of HPC Working To Improve Human Health
    Life scientists are increasingly using advanced computing to improve human health. Over the past three years, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has broadened its computational biology programming adding software, support, and expertise to increase the impact of HPC systems on cutting-edge research projects in this field.
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  • Keeping Your Cluster Consistent
    Part of administering a cluster is making sure everything is at the same version -- and that can be difficult without the right tools. Learn about the tools that Scott Collier, an HPCC engineering expert, uses at Dell.
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  • Visualization in HPC - Seeing is Understanding
    Dr. Paul Navratil from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) overviews some of the exciting scientific imagery performed on the world's highest resolution title display called Stallion. The blog features an overview of some of the projects from Stallion, and Dell's Dr. Jeff Layton poses some simple questions about how other research and development center are, or could be using visualization.
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  • Overcoming the Fear, Costs & Support Commitment of PetaFLOPS Systems
    In general, increased compute power at affordable prices is continuing to arrive each day. Along that path to increased compute power, there are a few bumps that need addressing. One is storage and the required I/O rates.
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  • THE NEXT DECADE WILL INTERTWINE MOST SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH WITH SUPERCOMPUTING
    My associate Dr. Otero commented on his blog "Like it or not, life science researchers at large need to recognize that their research is intertwined with supercomputing resources in one way or another." I'd take that one step further than just life sciences and say that most science and engineering research is or is going to be intertwined with supercomputing.
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Dell Product Spotlight
  • PowerEdge C6100
    Purpose built for HPC!
    This new ultra-dense 2U shared infrastructure PowerEdge server supports up to 4 independent server nodes, providing capacity, performance and flexibility in a very dense eco-friendly package.
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  • New! Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
    A storage solution for Linux clusters designed to enable efficiencies in high-performance computing environments by scaling to support massive amounts of data.
    Read More >
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  • Dell, Mellanox InfiniBand Enable CU Boulder to Broaden Research for Life Science
    Mellanox Technologies 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products provide the high-performance server and storage networking for the new University of Colorado at Boulder Dell-based 1,368-node cluster.
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  • Dell and The University of Cambridge Deliver HPC Power to Researchers
    Dell and The University of Cambridge announced the opening of the Dell | Cambridge High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre. This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA's leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community.
    Learn More >

  • NASA Center for Climate Simulation Expands Research Capabilities with Dell High-Performance Computing Technology
    Dell selected to provide solution valued at up to $5.1M for the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The solution will include Dell’s new PowerEdge C6100 servers customized for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
    Learn More >

  • HPC Solutions Improve Computing Environments For Reservoir Simulation
    Maximize your cluster's interconnect technologies for best HPC system efficiency.
    Learn More >

  • Managing Storage is a Big Challenge
    Joseph Kremer, President, Public for Dell Asia Pacific Japan region, discuses the growth of the HPC market and Dell's key focus areas and challenges in the Indian market.
    Learn More >

  • Industry Insights: What you should know about Power and Performance Efficiency!
    This Q/A session features several industry experts' views into an area of HPC that is weighing on many people's minds as datacenter environments face increasing pressure to expand capabilities while controlling costs.
    Learn More >

  • New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
    New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution, a storage solution for Linux clusters designed to enable efficiencies in high-performance computing environments by scaling to support massive amounts of data.

    Learn More >
    Press Release >

  • Scientists Leverage Experimental MATLAB Resource
    The number of users of the NSF-funded "MATLAB on the TeraGrid" experimental computing resource has been steadily increasing since it went into production at SC09.
    Read More >

  • New Medical Archiving and High Performance Computing Solutions Designed to Boost Healthcare, Research Efficiencies
    Dell unveiled solutions to enable healthcare, higher-education and government organizations to better use technology to manage data, conduct research and fulfill their missions in a more efficient and secure manner.
    Read More >

  • Mellanox InfiniBand Helps Smash SC09 Cluster Challenge for StonyBrook
    Each year, the The Supercomputing (SC) Conference features a Student Cluster Competition where undergraduate student teams compete against each other to perform scientific application benchmark runs on clusters.
    Read More >

  • Dell Top500
    Dell has 16 systems listed on the November 2009 TOP500, which features the 500 most powerful computer systems being used today.
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  • Dell wins the HPCwire Editors' and Readers Awards for 2009
    Dell Inc. has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
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  • Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
    The Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is a unique new storage solution providing high throughput Lustre-based storage as an appliance. It delivers a great combination of performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
    Learn More >





  • Using Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays as NFS Backend Storage in HPC Environments
    This paper evaluates the performance of the Dell PowerVault MD1200 storage arrays when they are used as backend NFS storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an HPC environment and discusses workloads that might benefit from such a solution.
    Download Now >





  • Dell HPC Solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences
    Dell is powering breakthrough research computing for Life Sciences organizations that supports today's evolutionary, life-changing discoveries.
    Download Now >





  • Single Virtual Systems for Life & Material Sciences
    Let Dell and ScaleMP show you how to aggregate the processing power of an x86 cluster and transform it to a virtual SMP-class supercomputer. You can run SMP-class applications on industry standard (non-proprietary) Intel servers at a much lower cost point.
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  • Visualization Clusters using Commodity Hardware
    Learn about the various types of visualization clusters and how to use of commodity hardware to build cost effective solutions in this white paper. It also details a selection of commercial and open source applications by field or specialty.
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  • HPC Scheduling and Resource Management
    Read a quick overview and benefits of scheduling and resource management considerations in implementing a High Performance Compute cluster from Dell.
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  • Dell Enabling Discovery Brochure
    Technology helps us with things that are too difficult,too costly, or too implausible to be attempted without it. It helps us achieve important results. It helps us discover.
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  • The Red Hat HPC Solution
    High performance computing (HPC) cluster deployments can be complicated, time- consuming and costly. The Red Hat® HPC Solution enables organizations to deploy enhanced systems quickly and run them efficiently. This helps organizations to reduce the cost and complexity of their Linux® cluster deployments.
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  • Intel Cluster Ready Specification and Intel Cluster Checker Tool
    Developed in conjunction with Dell and other leading high performance computing (HPC) vendors, the Intel® Cluster Ready program helps simplify buying, building, deploying and managing an HPC cluster (HPCC). Intel Cluster Ready helps to ensure application and component interoperability from the moment you power up the cluster through the lifetime of the system.
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  • Introduction to HPCC
    This free web-based course will give an overview of the history, benefits, equipment, and setup in the HPCC market. Participants will study the benefits of HPCC including architectural solutions from Dell, high-performance potential, price-to-performance ratio, scalability, and savings in terms of setup time, environmental impact and operating costs.
    Launch Your Free Course Now! >


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    Dell is helping the scientists, engineers and member organizations working on the ATLAS particle physics experiment to transform our understanding of the world. Dell is helping the scientists, engineers and member organizations working on the ATLAS particle physics experiment to transform our understanding of the world.
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  • Dell HPC Performance Calculator
    Compute Theoretical or Estimated Performance with this simple tool to aid with system sizing & performance/efficiency measurements.
    Get Started Here >
  • Dell HPC Advisor Tool
    Get started! The HPC Advisor tool can help create a configuration with your requirements in mind.
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"Having the high-speed cluster was one of the really big selling points in getting a grant. The Dell cluster makes it possible to get research results much more quickly than stand-alone workstations, with much greater granularity in the results."

Dr. Chris Foreman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville.

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"It often makes sense for us to go through Dell for all of the components of an HPC system. Dell has strong partnerships with leading technology providers, and we can have a conversation with our Dell sales engineer and readily understand the value propositions of different components in an overall system configuration. We can then order the complete configuration through Dell which is a lot easier and, in this case, saved 75 percent on procurement time. Dell has a positive working relationship with vendors such as Force10 and DataDirect Networks and is able to work seamlessly with those vendors to deliver a complete solution."

David Lifka, director, Cornell Center for Advanced Computing

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"We certainly looked at other vendors, but the service we get from Dell and the collaboration we get, both pre-sales and post-sales, are a big value for us. The people at Dell are really thoughtful about the issues that scientists are looking at, and they understand what's needed for high-performance computing solutions. My experience in working with Dell is that Dell is willing to adapt to our needs."

Dr. Adel Elmaghraby, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville

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"Dell blades provide the performance and reliability a HPC software utility needs and reduce infrastructure costs. Dell products integrate leading edge components and have the added value of ongoing maintenance and support that doesn't break the bank."

Paul Redfern, assistant director, Cornell Center for Advanced Computing

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Learn how customers are using their Dell HPC Solutions to Enable Scientific Research
  • Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Barcelona TECH
    UPC needed to boost computing power at two departments to help students and researchers continue their work. Working with Dell, UPC built two high performance computing (HPC) environments based on Dell servers.

    Spanish Version >

  • University of Louisville Case Study
    The University of Louisville's J. B. Speed School of Engineering needed a visualization wall to display gene, protein, and metabolite sequences, and a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to investigate energy usage in building interiors. After Dell's installation of a visualization wall and HPC cluster, the school was able to boost its compute power tenfold and do visualization on the fly.
    Learn More >

  • University of Calgary Case Study
    The University of Calgary needed to optimize its computing power to research the phenomena involved in the transition between disordered and ordered states, such as the freezing of water into ice. By implementing a Dell and Intel high-performance computing cluster system, it gained 1.5 times the processing capacity than it would have from competitive solutions—and avoided a $50,000 power upgrade in the process.
    Learn More >

  • J. Craig Venter Institute Case Study
    J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a world leader in genomic research. Studying genetic sequencing requires some serious number-crunching capabilities, along with a whole lot of storage. Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers helped reduce cost-per-gig while improving performance.
    Learn More >

  • Green Efficiency
    To build more wind farms overseas, RES (Renewable Energy Systems) needed high performance computing. It wanted a power-efficient solution that was compact and easy to manage.
    Learn More >

  • MATLAB on the TeraGrid
    Cornell Center for Advanced Computing and its partners demonstrate seamless access to a software utility with the National Science Foundation-funded "MATLAB on the TeraGrid" project.
    Learn More >

  • Breaking Down Barriers to Knowledge
    Florida State University needed to replace its older shared-research computing platform that had become difficult to expand and not user-friendly and provide HPC research facilities for a wide range of researchers.
    Learn How >

  • Surfing Science's Data Tsunami
    The IT staff of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University faces a perpetual challenge in meeting scientific researchers' skyrocketing needs for computational power.
    Learn How >


  • Building A Fountain of Knowledge
    Texas Tech needed to build a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster to attract top-name resear chers and help fulfill its mission to be in the top tier of Texas research universities.
    Learn How >

  • RISING SEAS IN CYBERSPACE
    Geoscientists at the University of Ottawa Department of Earth Sciences needed a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to study the complex effects of melting ice sheets on our planet.
    Learn How >

  • Coming in First with Dell
    Monash University Health Sciences gets research results in a week instead of months using a Dell-based high-performance computing cluster.
    Learn How >

  • Brain Power
    The IT team optimized brain scanner output with the implementation of a cost-efficient eight-node Dell server cluster mounted in a compact rack and supported by a modular disk storage array.
    Learn How >


  • Rock Solid IT
    The Rock Fracture Dynamics Lab wanted to build a one-of-a-kind rock dynamics lab that could record large amounts of experimental data, create detailed and accurate computer models, and provide access to information for numerous students and researchers.
    Learn How >

  • UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer
    The Cambridge University implemented Dell PowerEdge™ servers in a high performance computing cluster that has become the fastest academic supercomputer in the UK.
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