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9 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
• Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd server
• Dual Intel® Xeon® Bronze 4110 processors
• 96 GB of memory, 12 x 8GB 2667 MT/s DIMMS
• PERC H730P RAID controller
• 2 x 250GB Mixed-use SATA SSD in RAID-1 (For OS)
• 12 x 12TB 3.5: nlSAS HDDs in RAID-6 (for data)
• Dell EMC iDRAC9 Express
• 2 x 750 W power supply units (PSUs)
• Mellanox EDR InfiniBand Adapter
• Site specific high-speed Ethernet Adapter(optional)
This server configuration would provide 144TB of raw storage. For customers expecting between 25-100
users, an operational storage solution, such as the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC NFS Storage (NSS),
shown in Figure 2, with up 840 TB of raw storage of storage may be appropriate:
Figure 2 NSS7.3-HA Storage System Architecture
For customers desiring a shared high-performance parallel filesystem, the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC
Lustre Storage solution shown in Figure 3 is appropriate. This solution can scale up to multiple petabytes of
storage.