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Start Here to Design Your New or Improved High-Performance Computing Solution

Plan a high-performance computing (HPC) solution that will provide the research and computational capacity and productivity you need. Begin by following these simple steps:

  1. Understand your technology needs and computational power requirements. 
  2. Use the HPC Advisor Tool, with your needs and requirements in mind. This tool will take you through a set of questions that will narrow down your HPC needs.
  3. Call your Dell sales representative or send an email to HPC_sales@dell.com to begin a collaborative exploration of options and an analysis of what would be the best solution, based on your needs.

Dell™ HPC solutions use industry-standard building blocks and best-in-class partner products that have been tested and validated to conform to comprehensive infrastructure stacks so you can be sure the solution will be able to grow with your requirements.
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  1. Dell/Cambridge Lustre Whitepaper

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    The Dell Lustre storage brick shows good overall performance and scalability characteristics with a high data security and availability record when in production.

  2. Visualization Clusters using Commodity

    Visualization Clusters Using Commodity Hardware

    5 out of 5

    This paper provides a high-level description of the various types of visualization clusters and briefly covers the use of commodity hardware to build cost effective solutions.

  3. White Paper — Optimizing Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays for HPC Deployments

    White Paper — Optimizing Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays for HPC Deployments

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    The goal of this paper is to establish best practices for tuning MD1200 arrays for use in high-performance computing (HPC).

  4. What the heck is a GPGPU and why should you care?

    05 Aug 2010By : Barton George

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    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.

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    Designing for hyperscale computing

    18 Jun 2010

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    Created for hyperscale environments such as private and public clouds, Web 2.0 and gaming infrastructures, and high-performance computing, Dell PowerEdge C-Series servers provide outstanding performance in a dense, streamlined, eco-efficient design.

  6. The Red Hat HPC Solution: Simplified High-Performance Linux Clusters

    The Red Hat HPC Solution: Simplified High-Performance Linux Clusters

    01 Nov 2008

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    Dell high-performance computing (HPC) with Red Hat HPC Solutions enables organizations to deploy enhanced systems quickly and run them efficiently — helping to reduce the cost and complexity of Linux cluster deployments.

  7. Running Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge Clusters

    Running Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge Clusters

    01 Nov 2008

    3.5 out of 5

    Find out how Dell PowerEdge servers and the Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 high-performance computing (HPC) platform can provide a highly available, high-performance foundation for HPC applications.

  8. Technical white paper Intel Cluster Ready program

    Simplifying HPC Clusters

    02 Jun 2008

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    The combination of Dell HPC and the Intel Cluster Ready program results in simpler operation and management of an HPC cluster.

  9. Evaluating Scalability and Power Benefits of Ninth-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers in an HPC Environment

    Evaluating Scalability and Power Benefits of Ninth-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers in an HPC Environment

    15 Nov 2006

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    This article discusses the benefits of Intel Xeon 51xx processors for high-performance computing (HPC) cluster environments by comparing performance/watt and cluster scalability results using compute-intensive applications.

  10. Serial Attached SCSI Storage for High-Performance Computing

    Serial Attached SCSI Storage for High-Performance Computing

    15 Nov 2006

    1 out of 5

    This article discusses deployment of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage in high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
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