From modeling and simulating new products to analyzing ‘Big Data’ for insights into customer behaviors, achieving better results faster can be crucial for competitive advantages and success. High performance computing (HPC), long used for academic/government research, has gone mainstream, and is now used by companies and organizations in all fields—from finance to pharmaceuticals, from marketing to manufacturing, from e-commerce to engineering, from healthcare to homeland defense. Dell is a leader in HPC and can help you get better, faster insights and answers, no matter what your organization desires to achieve.

1. MT58: Dell High Performance Computing
(HPC) solutions enable innovation,
outperform expectations

2. HPC is critical for BIG problems that require faster,
better answers via integrated, scalable solutions.
Cloud Computing
Emerging usage model to
simplify HPC
Modeling and
simulation
Traditional Parallel
Computing Clusters
Large ensemble problems
Analyze multiple data sets
High throughput
computing
Fast answers and insights for
data intensive problems
Big data
analytics

3. Scalable, end-to-end approach that enables faster insights
and competitive advantage
Lifecycle
services
Modular and
reference
designs
Flexible
architectures
HPC domain
expertise
• Faster time to discovery
End to end services maximize your HPC investment, from financing
to configuration, installation, cluster management and recycling.
• Integrated systems
Engineered and packaged solutions are fine-tuned for use cases.
• Standards-based building blocks
Modular architecture grows capacity as needed.
• 31 years of computer industry experience
Dell is a proven HPC partner, offering standard, open solutions from
Dell and strategic partners.
• Optimized portfolio of industry leading tools
Augments and adapts to customers’ operations.
• Dell HPC engineering and research team
Focus on your business goals.
• Best practices, performance characterizations
Incorporate Dell research into each HPC installation.

4. Deliver open, flexible and reliable solutions that solve customer problems while
removing complexity and providing choice.
Dell HPC solution offering
HPC solutions with the right fit and balance
From this To this
Collaborative, flexible and simplified

5. Select, deploy, manage and scale your cluster with a single source of support.
Get exactly the help you need.
Rack Integration
Services
Dell HPC Merge Center
15 of the world’s top 500
reported supercomputers
were built at this facility in
Austin. Five were
interconnected onsite.
• Expand IT capabilities to
scale with your business
• Speed up deployments.
and improve
productivity.
• Optimize performance
with flexible, customized
services.
Turnkey outsource system
management service that
provides secure remote
system monitoring,
administration and support
to help increase your
system utilization and
uptime.
Dell Financial Services
provides flexible payment
options so you can get
more compute power for
your money. By providing
the financing, we make it
easier for you to upgrade
and refresh.
Deployment
Services
Remote Cluster
Management Services
Dell Financial
Services

6. Performance-validated solutions for computationally intensive workloads
System building blocks: HPC compute
C6320 FX2 w/ FC430 IB
R630R430 R730+GPU R930R730
MDC XA-M20AM630 Blades
PowerEdge family of
general purpose nodes
C4130
Dense
CPU
Balanced
compute and
storage
Dense
acceleration
Dense blade
servers
Container-
optimized
Common management

7. System building blocks: High performance storage
Scale petabytes
as easily as
gigabytes in both
capacity and
performance.
Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution
(NSS)
Complete, ready-to-go NFS
storage solution that comes fully
configured with hardware, software
and professional support from Dell.
Dell Storage for HPC with Intel
Edition of Lustre
Fully supported, high-performance
and cost-effective Lustre parallel
file system that is easy to deploy,
configure and manage.

8. System building blocks: HPC networking
Dell makes powerful
networking technology
more accessible and
affordable.
• Flexible and scalable
networking platforms offer
high speed, low power, low
latency interconnects for
running data intensive
workloads.
• Rapid migration and transition
options between traditional,
new, and developing
technologies.

9. Dell R&D solutions for verticals
Specialty
clusters that
remove
complexity
for R&D
customers
Dell HPC Solution for Digital
Manufacturing
Boost your workstation output
with a compact, space-saving
form factor that fits conveniently
under lab desks and
countertops.
Dell Genomic Data Analysis
Platform
Tuned configuration for Next
Generation Sequencing research
with focus on power and density

10. Dedicated to research and development of HPC solutions
Dell HPC Solutions Engineering Lab
Meet real-life,
workload-specific
challenges
through
collaboration with
the global HPC
research
community.
• Dell XL Consortium
• Dell | Cambridge HPC
Solution Centre
• University of Pisa
• University of Texas — Texas
Accelerated Computing
Center (TACC)
• National Center for
Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) —
University of Illinois Private
Sector Program

11. National Center for
Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) Private
Sector Program simulation.
PSP Mission
• Help others do what they do better through
high value-added advanced computing and
data techniques.
• Stay 15 minutes ahead of world’s most
sophisticated companies.
Impact
• NCSA PSP is the nation’s leading industry-
facing supercomputing service.
• Dell is the OEM of choice for PSP’s iForge.

12. Accelerating industry innovation with supercomputing
Merle Giles
Director of Private Sector
Programs and Economic
Impact at the National
Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
‘Innovation
converts inventions
and discovery into
engineered
products and
services.’
— Merle Giles
HPCwire 2015 ‘Person to Watch’

13. Relevant computing for real users
Application-driven solutions
• iForge delivers the fastest computing
for a wide variety of applications
from CAE to bioinformatics, life
sciences, data analytics, and high-
throughput rendering.
• Solution-makers include experts in
scientific and engineering domains,
computer science, high-
performance computing, data, and
business impact consulting.
• Deep engagements with customers
and vendors
• Collaboration fosters innovation.

14. Gwenne Henricks, CTO & VP, Product Development & Global Technology
NCSA IMPACT at Caterpillar Inc.
“The high-performance computing capabilities of today will
serve as the industrial workstation of tomorrow. Working with
NCSA, we will gain access to HPC that enables simulation
realism, where we can uncover hidden insights on our
product designs to feed back to our engineering teams,
driving better overall solutions. We also gain access to a high
level of talent within NCSA conducting their own simulations,
which helps our engineers stretch their imaginations to focus
on solutions we could achieve for our own products.”

15. Dell iForge – on-demand and subscription
April 2015
CPU
Intel “Haswell"
Xeon E5 2680 v3
12-core CPU, 2.9
GHz
Intel "Ivy Bridge"
Xeon E5 2680 v2
10-core CPU, 3.1 GHz
AMD “Abu Dhabi”
Opteron 6380
8-core CPU, 3.4 GHz
Intel “Ivy Bridge”
Xeon E7 4890 v2
15-core CPU, 1.8 GHz
Total Nodes 80 56 16 2
Total x86 Cores 1,920 1,120 512 120
Cores/Node 24 20 32 60
Memory/Node 64 GB, 2.13 GHz 256 GB, 1.86 GHz 256 GB, 1.6 GHz up to 1.5 TB, 1.6 GHz
Storage IBM GPFS, 700 TB (current), 5+ PB (Fall 2015)
Interconnect 40 Gb/sec QDR InfiniBand (current), 100 GB/sec interconnect (Winter 2015)
OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7

16. • Development, Demonstration,
Deployment
• Failure to launch out of R&D is
rampant.
• Valley of death is uncertainty.
• Reducing uncertainty and risk is key
• Business drivers pull technology.
• Decision making with error bars
• Feasibility planning acceleration

17. Manufacturing
Energy
TechnologyLifeSciences
InstitutesTechnology
University of Illinois NCSA Private Sector Program Partners, Oct2015

18. Co-Editors:
Merle Giles, USA
Anwar Osseyran, Netherlands
• 40 contributors from 11 countries
• Introduction and history of computing
• Global overview of HPC & HPDA impact
• Business & technical case studies
• Challenges and opportunities
• Science and industry synergies

19. Closing thoughts
Research organizations
must move faster and
better than ever before.
Integrated, cost-effective, flexible
solutions that scale are critical to
solving BIG problems that involve:
• Complex modeling and
simulation.
• Big data analytics.
• Large ensemble problems and
analyzing multiple data sets.
• Emerging usage models that
simplify HPC access.

20. Take your next steps
to accelerate your
high performance
computing. Start today
Schedule time with a Dell HPC
Solutions Specialist
For more information, visit us online:
• Dell.com/hpc
• HPCatDell.com

21. Thanks!