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3.1.1 Solution summary

This solution is nearly identical to the solutions with IB EDR and 10 GbE versions except for a couple of

changes in the switching infrastructure and network adapters. As shown in Figure 5, this solution uses one

48U rack and requires extra deep enclosure. Bright Cluster Manager is the default tool and a proprietary

software solution stack from Bright Computing. Along with automated deployment and provisioning features

for HPC cluster, it incorporates powerful and intelligent management and monitoring capabilities. The

graphical user interface provides advanced configuration options.

Table 2 Hardware summary

Rack

1x 48U 600mm wide x 1200mm Deep

Master nodes

2x PowerEdge R430

CIFS gateway

1x PowerEdge R430

Compute nodes

24x PowerEdge C6320 on 6x PowerEdge C6300 Enclosure

High speed interconnect switch

1x Dell Networking H 1048-OPF

Management switch

1x Dell Networking S3048-ON

Primary File System

Dell EMC NSS7.0-HA configuration (240TB)

Parallel File System

Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage Solution (480TB raw space)

3.1.2 Cabling information

Management interconnect and high speed interconnect require 32 cables each. Dell EMC NSS7.0-HA needs

two cables for both management and high speed interconnect due to the HA configuration.

Table 3 Required cables

Cable types

Length

Quantity

High speed

interconnect cables

Copper cables

Management cables

1GbE RJ-45 CAT6

10ft

5ft