Tag: HPC
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Savtira streams media and apps from the cloud with beefy PowerEdge C combo
Savtira Corporation, who provides outsourced Cloud Commerce solutions, has chosen Dell DCS’s PowerEdge C line of servers and solutions to deliver streamed media and apps from the cloud. Dell’s gear will help power the Savtira Cloud Commerce platform and Entertainment Distribution Network (EDN). With a little help from PowerEdge C, businesses will now be able…
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Live from World Hosting Days – AMD’s John Freuhe talks about the AMD based PowerEdge C systems
This week, outside of Frankfurt, WorldHostingDays is taking place. A whole delegation of folks from the Data Center Solutions group is there to support the announcement of our new microserver line. A lot of our key partners are there as well. One such partner is AMD. Earlier today, AMD director of product marketing John Fruehe…
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Now Available, HPC monster machine
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the PowerEdge C6145 system made up of two servers crammed into a 2U enclosure with a total of 96 cores. Today that system officially became available for purchase. Rave reviews This system got a great review in CRN yesterday entitled “Performance Of Dell’s PowerEdge C6145 Rack Server Off…
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And on the other end of the spectrum — Microservers
Monday I wrote about the announcement of our mega-beefy, 96-core PowerEdge C6145 server, specifically geared to customers solving big problems involving huge and complex data sets in mapping, visualization, simulations and rendering. At the other end of the spectrum however are customers, such as those offering low-end dedicated hosting solutions, who are looking for systems…
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Dell DCS unveils its 4th HPC offering in 12 months, and its a beefy one
Today Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) is announcing the PowerEdge C6145, number four in our line of offerings targeted specifically at High Performance Computing. This AMD-based system, which contains two four-socket servers for a total of 96 cores, ranked as the highest performing x86 2U shared infrastructure server on the market based on SPECfp_rate2006 results.…
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El Reg gives DCS props for HPC innovation
The week before last a crew from Dell was out at NVIDIA’s GPU tech conference, showing our latest and greatest offerings in the HPC space. It looks like our PowerEdge C410x expansion chassis system caught the eye of the Register HPC blog writer Dan Olds. Below are some excerpts from Dan’s article, “Dell gets busy…
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NVIDIA: from gaming graphics to High Performance Computing
A few weeks ago a group from NVIDIA was out visiting Dell. Their Tesla series of GPU cards are the primary cards that are used in our newly announced C410X expansion chassis. Filling up the C410X with NVIDIA cards and attaching it to a server can bring about ginormous increases in compute performance, helping to…
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Welcome the uber-dense AMD-based Cloud/ HPC machine
The last couple of Dell Data Center Solutions offerings I’ve talked about, Viking and MDC, have been from the custom side of the house. Both of these solutions are targeted specifically at a few select large customers. The subject of today’s post however, the PowerEdge C6105 server, is available to anyone running a scaled out…
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Schlepping a 410x across Austin – A documentary
Last month we introduced the PowerEdge C410X expansion chassis which, when populated with GPGPUs and attached to a server, brings about ginormous increases in performance in a very cost effective manner. A couple weeks after the system debuted NextIO, who creates and sells virtualized IO capabilities, was looking to qualify the machine in their lab located here…
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PowerEdge C410x — Whiteboard topology
In the last of my GPGPU/PowerEdge C410x trilogy I offer up a whiteboard session with the system’s architect, Joe Sekel. Some of the topics Joe walks through: How does having remote GPGPUs connected via cable back to a server compare in performance to having the GPGPUs embedded in the server? The topology of the PCI express x16…
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Deep dive tour(s) of the PowerEdge C410x
In my last entry I talked about the wild and wacky world of GPGPUs and provided an overview of the PowerEdge C410x expansion chassis that we announced today. For those of you who want to go deeper and see how to set up and install this 3U wonder you’ll want to take a look at…
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Say hello to my little friend — packing up to 16 GPGPUs
While the name GPGPU, which stands for General-purpose computing on graphics processing units, doesn’t flow lyrically off the tongue, it’s an extremely powerful concept. What’s the big idea? The idea behind this sexy five letter acronym is to take a graphical process unit (GPU) and expand its use beyond graphics. Through the “simple” addition of programmable…
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PowerEdge C6100 – HPC & Cloud machine
As a follow on to last week’s PowerEdge C line overview, here is the first individual system overview: the C6100. Click below and let Dell Solutions Architect Rafael Zamora guide your thru the design and features of this densely packed machine targeted at HPC and cloud workloads. Some of the highlights: The PowerEdgeC 6100…