FRANKFURT, Germany,
June 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ISC
News summary:
- Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI adds Deep Learning with Intel
to simplify the path to AI insights
- New reference designs make it easier to deploy HPC for digital
manufacturing
- Dell Technologies Services offers broad AI and HPC project
support
- Dell EMC customer collaborations and partnerships fuel
innovation worldwide
Full story:
At ISC High Performance 2019, Dell Technologies is announcing
details of new solutions, reference designs, customer
collaborations and partnerships designed to advance and simplify
the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL)
and high performance computing (HPC).
According to HPC analyst and research firm, Hyperion Research,
2018 was another high growth year for HPC, with global industry
revenues reaching $27.7 billion and
Dell EMC growing at 13% over the past five years—more than double
the industry rate.1 Big data, AI, DL, and machine
learning (ML) are expected to bring new opportunities for
organizations, especially as HPC and AI continue to converge for
many HPC users.
"Organizations are increasingly using HPC and AI technology as
tools to gain greater insight and value from their data," said
Thierry Pellegrino, vice president
of HPC at Dell EMC. "Getting started and using these technologies
can be complex, so we're focused on making it simpler for
organizations of all sizes. We've engineered Dell EMC Ready
Solutions as tested and validated configurations that help our
customers more easily and quickly benefit from HPC and AI
technologies to reach their ultimate goals."
Dell EMC expands Ready Solutions for AI portfolio
Dell EMC has expanded its portfolio of Ready Solutions for
AI to include Deep Learning with Intel. This new Dell EMC
Ready Solution, co-developed with Intel, helps enable organizations
to deliver on the combined needs of their data science and IT
teams, and benefit from deep learning.
Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI help customers accelerate time
to insights by providing pre-designed and pre-validated solutions
ideal for ML and DL. The Deep Learning with Intel design can
reduce total cost of ownership by up to 24% over a three-year
period while providing double the compute
time and 10 times the storage capacity than running
the same workload on a leading public cloud AI service, according
to research and analyst firm Enterprise Strategy
Group2. It is the first industry solution with
Nauta software, an Intel-led open source initiative for distributed
deep learning using Kubernetes. Once deployed, users gain a
simplified path to AI-powered applications with an easy-to-set-up
solution that lets them focus on building models that generate
value instead of constructing IT infrastructure.
Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI are powered by Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers, PowerSwitch networking, and Isilon scale-out NAS
storage. Deep Learning with Intel also benefits from the newest AI
capabilities of the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
and Nauta Enterprise software. With its scalable approach,
customers can grow their deep learning environments as needed. It
is available to customers today, pre-configured with the open
source TensorFlow distributed deep learning framework and libraries
for data modeling.
New reference designs make HPC Digital Manufacturing
easier
Dell EMC is expanding its Ready Solutions for HPC Digital
Manufacturing with new and updated designs for Altair HyperWorks™,
ANSYS Fluent®, ANSYS® Mechanical™, Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA®, LSTC
LS-DYNA® and Siemens' Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+™ software. These designs
combine the flexibility of customized HPC systems with the speed,
simplicity and reliability of pre-configured systems, enabling
manufacturing, engineering and design-focused organizations to run
complex design simulations, including structural analysis and
computational fluid dynamics.
The new Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing designs
leverage Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, PowerSwitch networking and
PowerVault storage, backed by a single point of contact for support
with additional service options. The new Ready Solutions also
benefit from the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
available now in several PowerEdge servers, including the
four-socket PowerEdge R840.
Dell Technologies Services further simplify AI and HPC
deployments
Dell Technologies Consulting Services helps customers implement
and operationalize Ready Solutions for AI technologies and
libraries, and scale their data engineering and data science
capabilities. Once deployed, ProSupport experts provide
comprehensive hardware and collaborative software support to help
ensure optimal system performance and minimize downtime.
Additionally, Education Services offers courses and certifications
on data science, advanced analytics and more.
Dell Technologies Services also has expanded its ProDeploy and
ProSupport Enterprise Suite offerings to include ProDeploy for
HPC and ProSupport Add-on for HPC services3.
This helps make the process of implementing an HPC solution simple,
flexible and worry free–from installation and configuration to
ongoing, comprehensive, single source support.
Dell Technologies HPC deployments fuel innovation and AI
initiatives
Dell Technologies continues to collaborate with customers
worldwide to deploy HPC and AI solutions that fuel a wide range of
industry improvements and research activity.
- Norson Design provides advanced solutions for the
high-speed marine sector and is designing faster, safer and more
efficient boats by working with Supercomputing Wales4,
and its joint Atos Dell EMC Supercomputing Center of Excellence, as
well as a team of researchers at Swansea University. Using HPC simulations and
computational fluid dynamics, Norson Design can better understand
the complex nature of how boats, water and air interact, and
efficiently generate AI-developed aerodynamic and hydrodynamic
designs for high-speed vessels.
- Verne Global, located on a former NATO base in
Iceland, operates a vast,
industrial scale data center campus, powered by 100% renewable
energy. This campus supports a wide range of customers, including
manufacturing enterprises and financial, research and life science
institutions, whose competitiveness depends on HPC, AI and
data-driven applications. With the support of Dell EMC HPC
solutions, Verne Global is providing specialist HPC and AI cloud
and colocation services to more than 40 organizations.
- The University of Liverpool,
a globally-focused institution with multiple physical and virtual
campuses across Liverpool,
London, Suzhou, Singapore and online, is arming researchers
and students with HPC resources to increase collaborative and
inter-disciplinary work. Leveraging a hybrid system that brings
together on-premises and public cloud resources, the university has
created a unified environment, powered by Dell EMC PowerEdge
servers and Alces Flight software, that connects to the public
cloud and serves as a catalyst for discovery across a wide range of
disciplines.
- Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The
University of Texas at Austin is
helping advance research and discovery with its new, National
Science Foundation-supported Frontera supercomputer, ranked for the
first time as one of the top 10 highest performing supercomputers
on the latest Top500 list. Frontera leverages Dell EMC PowerEdge
servers and Dell EMC Isilon unstructured data storage solutions in
combination with 2nd generation Intel Xeon scalable processors,
Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory, CoolIT Systems high-density
Direct Contact Liquid Cooling and high performance Mellanox HDR
200Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect to open up new possibilities in
science and engineering.
Dell Technologies expands AI and HPC industry
collaboration
Dell Technologies also announces new relationships with
appliedAI and MOSAICrOWN.
Based in Germany, appliedAI is
one of Europe's largest non-profit
initiatives for the application of artificial intelligence
technology. Part of UnternehmerTUM, the largest non-profit
innovation and entrepreneurship center, it is comprised of more
than 25 technology companies and industry, ecosystem, international
and academic partners and aims to accelerate the adoption of
AI.
The MOSAICrOWN project5 aims to create new privacy
preserving data markets for data sharing and collaborative
analytics in multi-owner scenarios. The project consortium is led
by the University of Milan, and
includes partners such as Dell Technologies, Mastercard and SAP.
The Dell Technologies research team based in Cork, Ireland, is leading the effort to
develop secure data market solutions for the intelligent connected
vehicle industry.
Both appliedAI and MOSAICrOWN will receive access to computing
cycles from Dell Technologies' supercomputing system Zenith,
recognized as one of the industry's TOP500 highest performing HPC
systems, within the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab.
Availability
- Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI, Deep Learning with Intel is
available now in select countries with worldwide availability
expected in Q4 of 2019.
- New designs for Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital
Manufacturing, including for Altair HyperWorks™, ANSYS Fluent®,
ANSYS® Mechanical™, Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA®, LSTC LS-DYNA® and
Siemens' Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+™ software, are available now.
Supporting quotes
Dan Stanzione, executive
director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The
University of Texas at
Austin
"Our mission at the Texas Advanced
Computing Center is to help researchers from across the country
make breakthrough discoveries that advance science and society.
Through our collaboration with Dell Technologies and benefiting
from Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, 2nd generation Intel
Xeon scalable processors and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory,
we're standing up Frontera, one of the world's most powerful HPC
systems with support from the National Science Foundation. Our
success together will drive world-class research and fuel important
advances in all fields of science, from astrophysics to
zoology.
Trey Breckenridge,
director, High Performance Computing Collaboratory, Mississippi State University
"The Orion supercomputer at Mississippi State
University will support advanced research and development
activities in a broad range of areas, including environmental
modeling, cyber security, and autonomous vehicle design and
operation," said Trey Breckenridge.
"This new Dell EMC-based supercomputing resource will provide the
additional HPC capacity to run larger, more complex, and more
detailed simulations and models."
Carlos Morales, general
manager of AI Software, AI Products Group,
Intel
"As companies adopt Deep Learning to drive
their competitiveness, we are increasingly seeing data scientists
work with their IT departments, requiring solutions that are simple
to deploy and which accelerate time to insight. To this end, and as
a result of our long-standing relationship with Dell Technologies,
our teams created the Dell EMC Ready Solution for AI: Deep Learning
with Intel, which will help our joint customers make advancements
and discoveries of all types using deep learning."
Additional resources
- Direct2DellEMC Blog: Meet Deep Learning with Intel - the new
addition to the Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI portfolio
- Read more on Dell EMC in HPC here and AI here
- Connect with Dell EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn
and DECN
- Follow the latest news on Twitter from @Dell or
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1 Hyperion Research, A Vendor Shares View of
the 2018 HPC Market, May 2019
2 ESG Technical Validation Report sponsored by Dell EMC,
"Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI: Deep Learning with Intel,"
April 2019. Actual results may
vary.
3 Dell ProSupport availability and terms vary by region
and product. See dell.com/servicecontracts/global.
4 Supercomputing Wales is a strategic program of
investment in the university sector in Wales intended to change the way supercomputer
facilities are used to support research activities. The program is
led by Cardiff University, in a
consortium with Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea universities. The program is
part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
through the Welsh Government.
5 The MOSAICrOWN project has received funding from the
European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under
grant agreement No. 825333.
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