Dell Launches New High Performance Computing Systems and Unveils New Innovations to Bring Supercomputing Power to Mainstream Enterprises

•       Announces
availability of new Dell HPC Systems that simplify configurations, accelerates
both deployments and time to results with fully tested and validated systems

•       Grows
industry collaboration in advanced technologies with new early access program
for next generation HPC technologies to drive industry innovation further and
faster

•       Highlights
growing customer collaboration and deployments of Dell HPC Systems globally

Singapore – July 4, 2016 – Dell
today announced advancements to its high performance computing (HPC) portfolio,
including the availability of new Dell HPC Systems, early access to innovative
HPC technologies, technology partner collaborations, and successful global
customer implementations.

“While traditional HPC has been
critical to research programs that enable scientific and societal advancement,
Dell is mainstreaming these capabilities to support enterprises of all sizes as
they seek a competitive advantage in an ever increasing digital world,” said Mak Chin Wah, general manager for Enterprise
Solutions, South Asia, Dell.
“As a clear leader in HPC, Dell now offers customers highly flexible, precision
built HPC systems for multiple vertical industries based upon years of
experience powering the world’s most advanced academic and research
institutions. With Dell HPC Systems, our customers can deploy HPC systems more
quickly and cost effectively and accelerate their speed of innovation to
deliver both breakthroughs and business results.”

Dell announced the global availability
of the Dell
HPC Systems portfolio, a family of HPC and
data analytics solutions that combine the flexibility of customized HPC systems
with the speed, simplicity and reliability of pre-configured systems. Dell
engineers and domain experts designed and tuned the new systems for specific
science, manufacturing and analytics workloads with fully tested and validated
building block systems, backed by a single point of hardware support and
additional service options across the solution lifecycle.

With simplified configuration and
ordering, organizations can more quickly select and deploy updated Dell HPC
Systems at any scale today. As an Intel® Scalable System Framework®
configuration, these systems, available today, include the latest Intel® Xeon®
processor families, support for Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA)
fabric, and software in the Dell HPC Lustre Storage and Dell HPC NFS Storage
solutions:

·         Dell HPC System for Life Sciences– Designed
to meet the needs of life sciences organizations, this enables bioinformatics
and genomics centers to deliver results and identify treatments in clinically
relevant timeframes while maintaining compliance and protecting confidential
data.

·  Dell HPC System for Manufacturing –Enables
manufacturing and engineering customers to run complex design simulations,
including structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics.

·  Dell HPC System for Research –
Enables research centers to quickly develop HPC systems that match the unique
needs of a wide variety of workloads, involving complex scientific analysis.

Dell has instituted a customer early
access program for early development and testing in
preparation for Dell’s next server offering in the HPC solutions portfolio, the Dell
PowerEdge C6320p server, which
will be available in the second half of 2016, with the Intel® Xeon Phi™
processor (formerly code-named Knights Landing). The PowerEdge C6320p unique
server engineering and design will enable customers to:

·         Gain insights faster with
a modular building block design, engineered to deliver faster insights for
data-intensive computations and scale-up parallel processing.

·         Accelerate performance in
dense and highly parallel HPC environments with 72 cores that are specifically
optimized for parallel computing.

·         Simplify and automate systems management with the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) with
Lifecycle Controller. Customers can deploy, monitor, and update PowerEdge
C6320p servers faster and ensure higher levels of service and availability.

The Texas
Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
at The University
of Texas at Austin has partnered with Dell and Intel to deploy an upgrade to
its Stampede supercomputing cluster with Intel Xeon
Phi processors and Intel
OPA via Dell’s early access program. Stampede, one of the main clusters for the Extreme Science
and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE),is a multi-use, cyberinfrastructure resource offering large memory,
large data transfer, and GPU capabilities for data-intensive, accelerated or
visualization computing for thousands of projects ranging from cancer cure
research to severe weather modeling.

This month, the
National Science Foundation awarded $30 million to TACC to acquire and deploy
Stampede 2 as a strategic national resource to provide HPC capabilities for
thousands of researchers in the U.S. The new Dell HPC System is expected to
deliver a peak performance of up to 18 petaflops, more than twice the system
performance of the current Stampede system. Three and a half years since its
installation, Stampede ranks as the 12th most powerful
supercomputer in the world, according to the June 2016 TOP500 list.

Additionally, Dell continues to bring HPC capabilities to mainstream
enterprises through a series of evolving solutions and services designed to
deliver a range of HPC as a Service capabilities, giving HPC sites a choice of
local or remote management services with deployment on-premise, off-premise or
a hybrid of the two. At ISC16, Dell will highlight a proof-of-concept with
Cycle Computing, demonstrating the orchestration and management of Dell
clusters, in a hybrid model sharing on-premise and public cloud resources,
enabling customers to most efficiently utilize their on-premise systems while
seamlessly providing access to the vast resources of the public cloud.

The Centre for
High Performance Computing (CHPC) this month unveiled Lengau, ranked the no. 1 fastest HPC system
in the African continent according to the June 2016 TOP500 list. Powered by 1,039 Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell Storage, Dell
Networking and Mellanox FDR InfiniBand, the system is designed to open up new
research capabilities and avenues, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
radio telescope project, and stimulate private-sector projects in areas ranging
from climate modelling to energy storage.

“CHPC aims to equip our local
researchers with powerful tools,” said Dr. Happy Sithole, Director, Centre for
High Performance Computing. “Since we started working with Dell on HPC
solutions in 2007, we’ve always taken inspiration from the fastest animals in
the land. Our newest system, Lengau, (Cheetah) has a processing speed capable
of nearly a petaflops, or a thousand-trillion floating point operations per
second.”

Sensus, a utility technology provider, collects data from 17 million gas,
electric and water meter sensors, and uses real-time analytics to define,
validate and communicate that data in a meaningful way. The company implemented
a data cluster based on Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd servers with Hadoop,
which has enabled a 10x improvement in investigation response time.

“Before, it might have taken us a
week or two to process data because we were doing it manually and pooling it
from different systems,” said Mike McGann, vice president of quality at Sensus.
“Now, our project managers can instantly get a customer’s full data set. Having
this data at our fingertips makes us a lot quicker on response time and allows
us to provide faster and more accurate results, with defined metrics, to the
business, so that we make really good decisions with real data.”

These customers are among the many that
have chosen Dell HPC Systems. Read about other successful customer deployments
also detailed today here.