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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...........................................................................................................3
AUDIENCE ........................................................................................................................................ 3
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................4
SOLUTION OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................4
Architecture ....................................................................................................................................... 4
Compute and Management Components ..................................................................................................... 5
Storage Components .................................................................................................................................... 6
Network Components ................................................................................................................................... 9
Interconnect ................................................................................................................................................ 10
Software Components ................................................................................................................................ 10
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS ................................................................ 11
Aligner scalability ............................................................................................................................. 11
Genomics/NGS data analysis performance .................................................................................... 12
The throughput of Dell HPC Solution for Life Sciences .............................................................................. 13
Molecular dynamics simulation software performance .................................................................... 14
Molecular dynamics application test configuration ...................................................................................... 14
Amber benchmark suite .............................................................................................................................. 15
LAMMPS ..................................................................................................................................................... 16
Cryo-EM performance ..................................................................................................................... 17
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................ 18
APPENDIX A .......................................................................................................................... 19
APPENDIX B .......................................................................................................................... 21
REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................ 22