Performance

Run your applications faster, and get better results with Dell ultradense memory and tight integration:
  • Hundreds of high-efficiency GPU (graphical processing units) cores
  • Extensive memory expandability (up to 24 DIMMs)
  • Generation3 PCIe slots
  • Hot swappable PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives
You can get the processing power, memory scalability, throughput and GPU support you need for your most demanding applications with Dell™ HPC solutions.
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    Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution — High Availability with Large Capacities

    22 Feb 2012

    Learn about the architecture, design, performance and set up for the Dell Network File System (NFS) Storage Solution with High Availability (NSS-HA) configurations with 144TB and 288TB capacities.

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    Memory Selection Guidelines for HPC and 11G PowerEdge Servers

    29 Oct 2010

    Learn how to select memory options to optimize Dell PowerEdge 11th-generation servers running on Intel Xeon 5500 processors for high-performance computing clusters (HPCCs).

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    Optimal BIOS Settings for HPC and PowerEdge 11G Servers

    03 Sep 2010

    Learn the results of testing BIOS features and demand-based power management profiles to determine their optimal settings in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Find best practice recommendations for improving performance and efficiency.

  4. Dell PowerVault MD1200 as a Network File System Backend Storage Solution

    Dell PowerVault MD1200 as a Network File System Backend Storage Solution

    01 Jan 2010

    This article describes a solution that deploys a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) network using network file system (NFS) on Dell HPC clusters. The article describes installation and hardware/software configuration best practices.

  5. Increasing Throughput for Data-Intensive, High-Performance Computing (HPC) Environments for Microsoft® Windows® HPC Clusters

    Increasing Throughput for Data-Intensive, High-Performance Computing (HPC) Environments for Microsoft Windows Clusters

    12 Aug 2009

    This document describes high‐performance solution architecture in a data-intensive high-performance computing (HPC) environment with Windows HPC Server 2008, Dell Power Edge servers, Quantum StorNext file system, and Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage.

  6. Evaluating Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand Performance in HPC Clusters

    Evaluating Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand Performance in HPC Clusters

    01 Nov 2008

    IT organizations need an efficient communication subsystem to sustain application performance. The Dell team tested bandwidth and benchmarks to determine speedup rates in high-performance computing (HPC) clusters used on Dell PowerEdge servers.

  7. Evaluating Third-Generation AMD Opteron Processors for HPC Workloads

    Evaluating Third-Generation AMD Opteron Processors for HPC Workloads

    01 Nov 2008

    To help organizations understand the potential performance increases enabled by third-generation AMD Opteron processors, Dell engineers performed benchmark tests against a variety of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

  8. Multicore Scalability With Fluent and Windows Compute Server 2003

    Multicore Scalability With Fluent and Windows Compute Server 2003

    15 Nov 2007

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    This article describes tests performed to evaluate the scalability of types of clusters when using multicore processing to help increase performance.

  9. Parallel Rendering Technologies for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters

    Parallel Rendering Technologies for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters

    15 Nov 2007

    This article discusses parallel rendering architectures and highlights open source utilities that can help meet rendering requirements for large-scale data sets.

  10. Utilizing Open MPI Middleware for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters

    Utilizing Open MPI Middleware for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters

    15 Nov 2007

    This article outlines the Open MPI architecture and its flexible runtime configuration options, and offers tips that can help maximize bandwidth performance.