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Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers

The Table 2 above provides a snapshot of the advantages of the server configurations. The color coding

refers to what category they fall into. For example a R730 or C4130 would be design choices for codes or

algorithms that have potential performance improvement and can take advantage of GPU programming

models. For HPC applications that are highly computation intensive, high density servers like C6320, FC630

and FC430 are applicable design choices.

Details of Bright Cluster Manager 7.1

Bright Cluster Manager is a commercially supported software solution stack from Bright Computing. It aims

to provide provisioning, deployment, installation, management and monitoring for High Performance

Computing Clusters. Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 setups all the necessary services, ssh keys, passwords, kernel

parameters, home directories that are needed for the configuration and performance of a cluster. It also

integrates additional third party components eg: drivers and tools and middleware libraries.

Key features of Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 include:

 Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 Dell Edition is based on RHEL 6.6.z kernel.

 Dell BIOS Integration framework

 Cluster Management GUI and Shell

 Node Provisioning & Image Management

 Node Identification

 Software Update Management

 Cluster Monitoring

 User Management

 Parallel Shell

 High availability for the compute nodes

 Hardware RAID setup

 Scale to thousands of hosts / multiple clusters.

Figure 1. Bright Cluster Manager: Dashboard showing the Cluster Overview and Status