White Papers

3 DELL EMC HPC System for Life Sciences v1.2 | Document ID | version (optional)
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 System Design ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
2.1 Hardware Configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.1 Master Node Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 6
2.1.2 Login Node Configuration ................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1.3 Compute Node Configuration ............................................................................................................................. 7
2.1.4 Common Internet File System (CIFS) gateway .................................................................................................. 8
2.1.5 Fat Node ............................................................................................................................................................. 8
2.1.6 Accelerator Node Configuration ......................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Network Configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 9
2.2.1 Management Network ........................................................................................................................................ 9
2.2.2 High-Speed Interconnects ................................................................................................................................ 10
2.3 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
2.3.1 NSS 7.0 HA ...................................................................................................................................................... 11
2.4 Software Configuration ..................................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.1 Bright Cluster Manager ..................................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.2 BioBuilds ........................................................................................................................................................... 14
3 Sample Architectures ................................................................................................................................................. 16
3.1 Case 1: PowerEdge C6320 compute subsystem with Intel® OPA fabric ........................................................ 16
3.1.1 Solution summary ............................................................................................................................................. 17
3.1.2 Cabling information ........................................................................................................................................... 17
3.2 Case 2: PowerEdge FC430 compute subsystem with IB FDR fabric .............................................................. 18
3.2.1 Solution summary ............................................................................................................................................. 19
3.2.2 Cabling information ........................................................................................................................................... 19
4 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 20