White Papers

5 Dell HPC System for Manufacturing—System Architecture and Application Performance

1 Introduction

This technical white paper describes the Dell HPC System for Manufacturing. The Dell HPC System for

Manufacturing is designed and configured specifically for customers in the manufacturing domain. This

system uses a flexible building block approach, where individual building blocks can be combined to build

HPC systems which are ideal for customer specific work-loads and use cases. The individual building

blocks are configured to provide good performance for specific application types and workloads common

to this industry. This whitepaper discusses the types of applications commonly used in the manufacturing

domain, describes the building blocks that work well for each application, and provides measured,

quantified performance results for the system.

The architecture of the Dell HPC System for Manufacturing, a description of the building blocks and the

rationale behind the design choices are presented in Section 2. Section 3 describes the system

configuration, software and application versions, and the benchmark test cases that were used to measure

and analyze the performance of the Dell HPC System for Manufacturing. Section 4 quantifies the

capabilities of the system and presents benchmark performance from four CAE applications. The

applications used for benchmarking include ANSYS

Fluent

, ANSYS Mechanical™, CD-adapco

STAR-

CCM+

and LSTC LS-DYNA

. Section 5 documents the power requirements for the solver building blocks

and Section 6 discusses the VDI capabilities available in the system.