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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................2
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...........................................................................................................4
AUDIENCE ........................................................................................................................................ 4
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................4
SOLUTION OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................5
Architecture ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Compute and Management Components .......................................................................................... 7
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6320 for compute node ........................................................................................ 7
Dell EMC PowerEdge C4130 for accelerator node ..................................................................................... 7
Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 for fat node .................................................................................................... 7
Dell EMC PowerEdge R430 for master node, login node and CIFS gateway ............................................. 8
Storage Components ........................................................................................................................ 8
NSS 7.0 HA ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage Solution ..................................................................................................... 9
Dell EMC PowerEdge R430 as the CIFS Gateway .................................................................................... 9
Network Components ........................................................................................................................ 9
Force10 S3048-ON switch ......................................................................................................................... 9
Dell EMC Networking H-Series OPA Switch ............................................................................................ 10
Dell EMC Networking Infiniband FDR and EDR Switch ............................................................................ 10
Software Components ..................................................................................................................... 10
Bright Cluster Manager® 7.2 .................................................................................................................... 11
Lab7 BioBuilds ......................................................................................................................................... 11
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS ................................................................ 11
Aligner scalability ............................................................................................................................. 11
Aligner scaling test configuration .............................................................................................................. 11
BWA shows stable scalability ................................................................................................................... 12
Genomics/NGS data analysis performance .................................................................................... 13
Variant Analysis test configuration ........................................................................................................... 14
The throughput of Dell EMC HPC System for Life Sciences .................................................................... 15
Molecular dynamics software performance ..................................................................................... 15
Molecular dynamics application test configuration.................................................................................... 16
Amber benchmark suite ........................................................................................................................... 16
HOOMD-blue benchmark suite ................................................................................................................ 18