Learn about the architecture, design, performance and setup for the Dell™ Network File System (NFS) Storage Solution with High Availability (NSS-HA) configurations with 144TB and 288TB capacities. The NSS-HA solution uses NFS with Red Hat® Scalable File System (XFS) and PowerVault™ storage to provide easy-to-manage, reliable and cost-effective storage architecture for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.

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This technical white paper describes the Dell HPC System for Manufacturing. The Dell HPC System for Manufacturing is designed and configured specifically for customers in the manufacturing domain. This system uses a flexible building block approach, where individual building blocks can be combined to build HPC systems which are ideal for customer specific work-loads and use cases. The individual building blocks are configured to provide good performance for specific application types and workloads common to this industry.

This whitepaper discusses the types of applications commonly used in the manufacturing domain, describes the building blocks that work well for each application, and provides measured, quantified performance results for the system.

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The Dell HPC Storage with Intel EE for Lustre Solution helps bring the benefits of an HPC file system to a broad range of enterprise organizations. Dell’s enterprise- ready Lustre parallel file storage solution can deliver a higher level of computing power and throughput, and make available information and insights derived from big data and compute-intensive applications — such as advanced modeling, simulation, and data analysis—to a wider audience of enterprise users. This HPC storage solution, backed by Dell and Intel, offers the potential to drive innovation, deliver higher quality products and designs, and sustain competitive advantage.

The Dell Storage for HPC with Intel® Enterprise Edition (EE) for Lustre Solution allows end-users that need the benefits of large–scale, high bandwidth storage to tap the power and scalability of Lustre, with its simplified installation, configuration, and management features that are backed by Dell and Intel.

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Serious computation for life and death research Get the extreme power and storage needed for genomic processing and life sciences study. Dell HPC System for Life Sciences accelerates time-to-insight for a range of fields including drug design, cancer research, agriculture and forensics — and it:

• Simplifies integration and workflow management with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) systems
• Achieves fast results with maximum efficiency; processes 163 genomes per day with 10X the data samples and 54 genomes per day with 50X the data samples; completes a genome analysis in less than 8 hours
• Has a flexible design that scales from 4 to 40 nodes per system

Dell’s flexible, pretested configurations reduce lengthy implementation timelines from months to weeks and ensure lower upgrade and ongoing operational costs.

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Evolving research and technical workloads push the limits of high performance computing (HPC). Our scalable, flexible market-ready solutions — with the latest Intel® processors — readily handle compute and data-intensive workloads to drive breakthroughs faster. Learn how our HPC Blueprint, based on proven reference architectures, can help you:

• Transform data into insights faster with less risk
• Increase bandwidth, throughput and scalability
• Streamline deployment and cluster management

Dell supports industry, research, government and education with market-ready HPC solutions that enable more innovation and discovery. Our scalable, flexible solutions readily handle compute and data-intensive research workloads, helping drive faster breakthroughs.

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