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10 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing—Siemens’ Simcenter STAR-CCM+™ Performance
For customers desiring a shared high-performance parallel filesystem, the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC
Lustre Storage solution shown in Figure 3 is appropriate. This solution can scale up to multiple petabytes of
storage.
Figure 3 Dell EMC Ready Solution for Lustre Storage Reference Architecture
2.5 System Networks
Most HPC systems are configured with two networks—an administration network and a high-speed/low-
latency switched fabric. The administration network is typically Gigabit Ethernet that connects to the onboard
LOM/NDC of every server in the cluster. This network is used for provisioning, management and
administration. On the CBB servers, this network will also be used for IPMI hardware management. For
infrastructure and storage servers, the iDRAC Enterprise ports may be connected to this network for OOB
server management. The management network typically uses the Dell Networking S3048-ON Ethernet
switch. If there is more than one switch in the system, multiple switches should be stacked with 10 Gigabit
Ethernet cables.
A high-speed/low-latency fabric is recommended for clusters with more than four servers. The current
recommendation is an EDR InfiniBand fabric. The fabric will typically be assembled using Mellanox SB7890
36-port EDR InfiniBand switches. The number of switches required depends on the size of the cluster and the
blocking ratio of the fabric.
2.6 Cluster Management Software
The cluster management software is used to install and monitor the HPC system. Bright Cluster Manager
(BCM) is the recommended cluster management software.