What's New in HPC

Performance Analysis of Xeon Phi 7120P on the R720

The PowerEdge R720 with the Intel Xeon Phi 7120P Coprocessor showed up to a 6.6X performance speedup and 2.5X energy efficiency improvement on High Performance Linpack (HPL) when compared to a R720 CPU-only configuration.
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Dell Boxes Up HPC for Life Sciences

Dell has its sights set on a duo of trends unfolding around high-end computing. On the one side, the pace, price and practically of genomics is converging to create an exploding market. And on that note, the compute infrastructure required to push it all forward is facing some convergence of its own
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High Performance For High-Volume Genomics Research

Meet your research needs with a flexible, scalable, efficient high performance computing (HPC) solution developed specifically for genomics workloads. The Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences is a first-of-its-kind, end-to-end HPC platform
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Dell's | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS 4.5)

In High-Performance computing, the efficient delivery of data to and from the compute nodes is critical. The speed at which researchers can generate and consume data in HPC systems, is making storage a bottleneck; managing and monitoring complex storage systems is growing the burden on storage administrators and researchers. Data requirements around performance and capacity are increasing rapidly. Increasing the throughput and scalability of storage devices supporting compute nodes can require a great deal of planning and configuration.
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Performance Analysis: NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPUs on the Dell PowerEdge C8220X Server

This Dell technical white paper explains the performance gain and power efficiency with K20 GPUs on the hyperscale-inspired Dell PowerEdge C8220X server.
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Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS

This Dell technical white paper explains how to improve Network File System I/O performance by using Dell Fluid Cache for Direct Attached Storage in a High Performance Computing Cluster.
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Dell Stengthens Position in HPC Market by Expanding Domain Expertise

This paper examines the evolving dynamics of the worldwide market for high-performance computing (HPC) systems, along with trends affecting this market. The paper also looks at Dell, a key player in this robustly growing market, as an example of a vendor that is seeking to advance its position by addressing the need for domain experts who can communicate with industry-specific users on a peer-to-peer basis.
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Dell High-Performance Computing Powers Life-Changing Discoveries

HPC used to be the domain of specialists using expensive, proprietary equipment. Today organizations can use commodity-based infrastructures to bring affordable HPC tools and strategic advantages to their research organization. Download this paper to learn more.
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Intel, Dell at the Center of the Stampede Supercomputer in Texas

The Texas Advanced Computing Center, or TACC, houses some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, including Ranger, which at one point was among the world's top 10 fastest supercomputers, with more than 500 teraflops of performance. Now TACC engineers are in the process of completing the construction of Stampede, which when it becomes fully operational early next year, will offer up to 10 petaflops of performance.
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Driving Cutting-Edge Research in the Heart of Oklahoma

A new University of Oklahoma HPC cluster built on IntelA? XeonA? processors and Dell PowerEdge R620 and R720 servers boosts performance for research while reducing power consumption.
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Cloud Computing is a Key Component on the Path to Personalized Medicine

When scientists embarked on the 13-year journey to map the human genome in 1990, they envisioned a future where the knowledge of DNA would aid in the diagnosis, treatment and even prevention of thousands of diseases and disorders. Fast forward to 2012 and that dream is closer to reality thanks to ongoing advances at the nexus of high-performance computing and genomics research.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS-HA) Configuration with Dell PowerVault MD3260/MD3060e Storage Arrays

This V2.0 paper describes the latest version of the Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution and features updated performance results.
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The Challenges of High Performance Computing

Lab Manager magazine discusses the challenges in delivering HPC systematically and reliably to keep pace with the unprecendented levels of computation, storage arrays, and networking switches researchers require to gather, evaluate, and move the voluminous data they have to grapple with.
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Dell HPC at LSU

Louisiana State University expects to accelerate researchers computations 10- to 20-fold with their new Dell and Intel cluster of 440 Dell PowerEdge™ 12G servers with Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors. Preliminary testing indicates that the new cluster will dramatically improve performance for researchers in a range of fields.
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Dell Announces Servers That Will Power Stampede Supercomputer

With the help of the PowerEdge R620 and FDR InfiniBand network connection, the NSS4-HA solution now achieves sequential read peak performance up to 4058 MB/sec!
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FSU Gives Researchers Capacity with a Scalable HPC Storage Solution

One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University (FSU) needed a high performance parallel cluster file system that could accommodate diverse and growing high performance computing (HPC) requirements while minimizing management complexity. Read this case study to learn about the scalable storage solution FSU chose, which increased their time to value by 40-fold (2 weeks vs. more than 1.5 years with an in-house solution), decreased the amount of staff time required to manage the system, and which allows for proactive troubleshooting to resolve bottlenecks before users even notice them.
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Performance Analysis of HPC Applications on Several Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers

This Dell technical white paper evaluates and provides recommendations for the performance of several HPC applications across three server architectures, the Dell PowerEdge M620, M420, and R820.
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Dell Speeds Up NFS Storage for HPC

With the help of the PowerEdge R620 and FDR InfiniBand network connection, the NSS4-HA solution now achieves sequential read peak performance up to 4058 MB/sec!
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A Primer on Computational Fluid Dynamics

Dell supported the landing of NASA's new Mars rover, the most complicated portion of the mission, with data analysis conducted in two NASA High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters running Dell PowerEdge servers.
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Dell Helps to Power NASA's Latest Mission to Mars

Dell supported the landing of NASA's new Mars rover, the most complicated portion of the mission, with data analysis conducted in two NASA High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters running Dell PowerEdge servers.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers

This solution guide describes the Dell NFS Storage Solution High Availability configuration (NSS-HA) with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers.
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Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers

This Dell technical white paper analyses the various BIOS options available in Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers and provides recommendations for High Performance Computing workloads.
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3 tips for High Performance Computer success at your University

A high performance computer at the University of Portsmouth is enabling scientists to analyse huge amounts of data much faster than conventional methods, and allowing them to make real breakthroughs in understanding the universe.
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How Navy supercomputers help sailors beat an ancient nemesis

At the Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center, the U.S. Navy produces some of the world's best maritime weather forecasts. Fleet Numerical's most powerful supercomputer is a Dell Linux cluster system known as A2 Emerald with 27.3 peak teraflops.
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TGen achieves 12-fold performance improvement in processing of genomic data with Dell and Intel®-based HPC cluster

At the Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center, the U.S. Navy produces some of the world's best maritime weather forecasts. Fleet Numerical's most powerful supercomputer is a Dell Linux cluster system known as A2 Emerald with 27.3 peak teraflops.
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Terascala Announces Industry's First Software Suite and Open Framework for Deploying Lustre Appliances

Terascala, Inc., the Fast Data Company, today announced LustreStack, the industry's first software suite and open framework for speeding the development and deployment of Lustre-based storage appliances on industry-standard hardware based on Intel® Xeon® processors
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Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand to Accelerate World-Class Supercomputer at TACC

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions will provide the high-performance interconnect enabling extremely scalable parallel applications for the new Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Stampede supercomputer.
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Intersect360 Names Top HPC System Vendors

The newly released HPC User Site Census: Systems, part of Intersect360 Research's HPC Market Advisory service, provides a detailed examination of the computational systems installed at a broad sample of HPC user sites, including analysis of component technologies such as processors and accelerators.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations with Large Capacities

High availability NSS configurations for capacities greater than 100TB. The NSS-HA solutions described here are designed for high availability using a pair of NFS servers in active-passive configuration to provide storage service to the HPC compute cluster.
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Dell Donated Cluster to Support Clinical Trial for Pediatric Cancer

The childhood cancer research computing cluster created and donated by Dell for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is ready to support the world's first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
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New Research Computing Cluster for Childhood Cancer Ready to Help Fast-Track Targeted Treatments

The childhood cancer research computing cluster created and donated by Dell for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is ready to support the world's first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
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Intel Rolls Out New Server CPUs

Intel Corp. has launched three new families of Xeon processors. A number of HPC server makers, including Dell, announced updated hardware based on the new silicon.
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OrangeFS Reference Architecture for Dell 710/MD Storage Stack

The OrangeFS Reference Architecture for the integration of Dell's R710 Servers and MD Storage Arrays (R710/MD Storage Stack) can be leveraged in a wide variety of high-perfomance, data-intensive computing environments.
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Dell HPC Scalable Storage Building Block-DPM

Described here are the architecture,performance and best practices for building solutions that are affordable, performance storage that is easily deployed and managed.
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Dell and Internet2 NET+ Services increase access to research computing and enable discovery with cloud services

Dell is working with Clemson University to provide more Internet2 institutions and organizations access to high performance research computing technology.
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Mellanox Interconnect Available on Dell Server

The new Dell PowerEdge blade server and Dell M1000e blade chassis have been designed to take full advantage of Mellanox's FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE PCIe 3.0-compliant adapters, which can offer up to double the I/O throughput versus older generation technologies
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The HPC Advisory Council Announces New GPU-Based Development and Application Benchmarking Center

A key step by the Council to provide world-leading resources for the HPC community to develop next generation HPC applications and environments.
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Servers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham provide 1,600-fold performance gains.

The computer forensics department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) needed a server cluster with storage for billions of emails and server power to process that many messages. Prospective students who hear about the cluster servers decide to study there
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NVIDIA and Dell Propel Trek to Racing Success

The universal challenges faced by Trek in creating a new generation racing bike apply to many companies today. Trek Bicycle Corporation applied the latest in NVIDIA technology to get the job done.
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Dell Spikes Xeon E5/R Servers with Nvidia GPUs

Today NVIDIA announced that, for the first time ever, the company's GPUs will be available in Dell PowerEdge rack and tower servers. Tailor-made for technical computing, the new servers combine 512-core Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs with the latest Intel Xeon E5/R CPUs based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.
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NVIDIA GPUs Bring High Performance GPU Computing to New Dell PowerEdge Servers

New Dell Servers With NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to Accelerate Broad Range of Scientific and Industrial Workloads.
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Clemson University aims at cloud with 32-fold faster server provisioning

Clemson University wanted to put its applications and hardware in the cloud to provide capacity-on-demand computing for its internal users and external customers who turn to Clemson for IT processing.
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Cloud Computing Helps Fight Pediatric Cancer

The industry has reached an inflection point where the advent of new high-performance computing technology and new genome sequencing tools means you can do something never before possible in clinical medicine.
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Dell's Enterprise Solutions Launch: Business Value Trumps Speeds and Feeds:

A "hybrid world" of business computing that is helping to drive the company's rapid, strategic transformation from its PC roots.
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