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9 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing—Dassault Systѐmes’ Simulia Abaqus Performance
as the performance aspect of archival data tends to not impede HPC activities. Our experience in working
with customers indicates that there is no ‘one size fits all’ operational and archival storage solution. Many
customers rely on their corporate enterprise storage for archival purposes and instantiate a high performance
operational storage system dedicated for their HPC environment.
Operational storage is typically sized based on the number of expected users. For fewer than 30 users, a
single storage server, such as the Dell PowerEdge R740xd is often an appropriate choice. A suitable
equipped storage server may be:
• 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