White Papers

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since Dell EMC announced Dell EMC HPC solution for Life Science in September 2016, the current Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC
Life Sciences can process 485 genomes per day
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with 64x C6420s and Dell EMC Isilon F800 in our benchmarking. This is roughly two-
fold improvement from Dell EMC HPC System for Life Science v.1.1 due to the introduction of Dell EMC’s14
th
generation servers which
include the latest Intel
®
Xeon
®
Scalable processors (code name: Skylake), updated server portfolio, improved memory, and storage
subsystem performance (1).
This whitepaper describes the architectural changes and updates to the follow-on of Dell EMC HPC System for Life Science v1.1. It
explains new features, demonstrates the benefits, and shows the improved performance.
AUDIENCE
This document is intended for organizations interested in accelerating genomic research with advanced computing and data
management solutions. System administrators, solution architects, and others within those organizations constitute the target audience.