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11 DELL EMC HPC System for Life Sciences v1.2 | Document ID | version (optional)
Up to 7Tb/s aggregate switching capacity
19” rack mountable chassis, 1U with optional redundant power supplies and Fan units
On-board SM for fabrics up to 2k nodes.
Dell EMC Networking S6000
1U high-density 10/40GbE ToR switch with 32 ports of 40GbE (QSFP+) or 96 ports of 10GbE and
eight ports of 40GbE or 104 ports of 10GbE.
Up to 2.56Tbps of switching capacity.
Dell EMC Networking Z9500
High-density 3U with 132 ports of 40GbE (528 ports of 1/10GbE using breakout cables)
Dell EMC Networking S4820T
1U high performance ToR switch provides (48) 1/10G BASE-T ports that support 100Mb/1 Gb/10Gb
and four 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks.
Each 40GbE QSFP+ uplink can be broken out into four 10GbE ports using breakout cables
Dell EMC Networking N4032F SFP Switch
24x 10GbE SFP + auto-sensing (10Gb/1Gb) fixed ports
Up to 32 10GbE ports using breakout cables and optional QSFP+ module
One hot swap expansion module bay
Dual hot-swappable redundant power supplies (460W)
2.3 Storage
The performance requirements of HPC environments with ever-larger compute clusters have placed
unprecedented demands on the storage infrastructure. The storage infrastructure consists of the following
components:
Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC NFS Storage (NSS 7.0-HA)
Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Lustre Storage
2.3.1 NSS 7.0 HA
NSS 7.0 HA is designed to enhance the availability of storage services to the HPC cluster by using a pair of
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage arrays along with Red Hat HA software stack. The HA
cluster consists of a pair of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and a network switch. The two PowerEdge servers
have shared access to disk-based Dell EMC PowerVault storage in a variety of capacities, and both are
directly connected to the HPC cluster by using OPA, IB or 10GbE. The two servers are equipped with two
fence devices: iDRAC8 Enterprise, and an APC Power Distribution Unit (PDU). If failures such as storage
disconnection, network disconnection, and system stopping from functioning, etc., occur on one server, the