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

Compute Node Configurations:

PowerEdge C6320

This is a half-height sled that fits into a 2U chassis. The chassis can support upto four sleds.

 Intel® Xeon E5-2600 v3 up to 18 cores

 Processor support of 85W, 90W,105W, 120W, 135W, 145W

 Two socket

 Support for Mellanox ConnectX3 FDR mezz card

 Two QPI links up to 9.6 GT/s

 1333, 1600, 1866, 2133 MHz (3DPC) DDR4 DIMMs, RDIMM & LR-DIMM

 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB DIMM, maximum memory support up to 256GB

 Option for Broadcom/Intel/Qlogic NDCs (1Gb/s or 10Gb/s) (dual port)

 One PCIe 3.0 x16 Riser slot

 Maximum storage up to 24 x 2.5” SAS, 12 x 3.5” SAS or 24 x 2.5” SDD

 iDRAC8 available for system Management

 Default upto six 2.5” SATA drives supported per sled

PowerEdge FC430

This is a quarter-width form factor and holds up to 8 nodes per PowerEdge FX2 enclosure

 Intel® Haswell-EP up to dual socket 14 cores /35MB cache support

 Support for front bay single port Mellanox ConnectX3 FDR Mezz with speeds of up to 56Gbp/s

and latency of 0.7us. The front Mezz supports IB-pass through and is connected to CPU2

 Processor support of 55W, 65W, 85W, 90W,105W, 120W

 Two socket

 Two QPI links up to 9.6 GT/s

 Total 8 DIMM slots with upto 2133 MT/s DDR4 DIMMs

 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DIMM, maximum memory support up to 256GB

 Option for Broadcom/Intel/Qlogic NDCs (1Gb/s or 10Gb/s) (dual port or quad port)

 One PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine slot and one PCIe x16 front cabled slot

 Maximum storage up to 2 x 1.8” SSD. However with Front Mezz IB only single storage 1.8” SSD

available.

 CMC and iDRAC8 available for system Management

Figure 4. FC430 in a FX Chassis and Configuration