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Dell EMC Drives Further Adoption of High Performance Computing to Simplify Artificial Intelligence Projects

Dell EMC, technology partners and customers collaborate to speed time to AI

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 26, 2018 — (PRNewswire) — ISC --

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At ISC18, in Frankfurt, Germany, Dell EMC is announcing details of new customer collaborations, new services and expanded partnerships in efforts to help fuel new developments in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). These developments further sharpen Dell EMC's focus on democratizing HPC, optimizing data analytics with AI innovations, and making Dell EMC solutions available to more mainstream enterprises, while continuing to advance the HPC and AI communities.

Taking the HPC ecosystem as a whole – including servers, storage, middleware applications and services – the industry accounted for a record high $24.3 billion global revenue in 2017 according to Hyperion Research. With an expected CAGR of 9.8 percent, the HPC research firm expects the sector to reach $38.4 billion by 2022, fueled by investments in big data, AI, ML and DL.

"Successfully deploying artificial intelligence, and its subsets of machine and deep learning, creates immense value, but real-world implementations can be complex," said Thierry Pellegrino, vice president of HPC at Dell EMC. "Based on decades of experience with leading institutions, and collaborations with our technology partners and strategic customers, Dell EMC provides an extensive portfolio of technologies – spanning workstations, servers, networking, storage, networking, software and services – to help businesses and organizations, of all types and sizes, deploy HPC solutions that make it simpler to accelerate their artificial intelligence efforts and reach their goals faster."

Dell EMC HPC deployments fuel AI initiatives

Customers worldwide continue to collaborate and deploy Dell EMC HPC solutions to fuel a wide range of discoveries and solutions development including a strong focus on AI. Recent deployments include:

Dell EMC expands HPC industry collaborations

In addition to a broad ecosystem of HPC partners, Dell EMC has expanded its partnerships with CoolIT Systems, Intel and NVIDIA, increasing collaboration on separate efforts within the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab, the 13,000 square-foot showcase and operational data center in Austin, Texas. This lab hosts the Dell EM Zenith system, which recently has exceeded 1 PetaFLOPS of sustained performance, ranked as #265 on the latest TOP500 list of highest performing HPC systems.

Collaborating with CoolIT Systems, the lab has installed a liquid cooled rack, designed to enable customers and partners to optimize and tune their unique data center workloads on liquid cooled Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 servers. These servers work in conjunction with corresponding CoolIT Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) and Rack Manifold products to deliver a complete data center liquid cooling solution that uses water to cool the CPUs, eliminating the need for chilled water in most data centers.

Dell EMC and NVIDIA are collaborating on two key initiatives focused on providing expertise and large-scale lab environments to help customers prove out AI use cases. In the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab, the Rattler cluster enables data science, software development and testing of large-scale GPU applications to demonstrate business value. Dell EMC and NVIDIA also are collaborating through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to teach customers to solve some of the world's most challenging problems and advance innovation in HPC, data analytics and artificial intelligence.

Dell EMC's continued collaboration with Intel includes the availability of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and the Intel® FPGA (field programmable gate array) Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with a range of Dell EMC PowerEdge14th generation rack servers to support customers' low latency, real-time AI efforts.

New Dell EMC services simplify HPC for organizations of all types

Dell EMC introduced two new services for HPC environments – ProDeploy for HPC and ProSupport Add-on for HPC. The company's services experts make the HPC solution implementation simple, flexible and worry free from consulting to installation and configuration to comprehensive, single source support. Learn more in this blog.

Dell EMC AI Challenge finalists

This May, Dell EMC launched its own AI Challenge, encouraging entrants to demonstrate practical application of AI technology with a transformational impact on business, research or society. The top finalists, announced today, will receive exclusive remote access to a Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab cluster powered by PowerEdge C4140 servers to run and prove out their proposals. The final AI Challenge winner will be announced at SC18 in November.

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Ryan Gariepy, co-founder and chief technology officer, OTTO Motors
"Every single piece of software that we develop is simulated hundreds or thousands of times before it sees a robot in test, much less a robot in one of our client sites. Having reliable compute infrastructure is critical for this. Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are the foundation of the work we do at OTTO® Motors. They provide the automation, security, flexibility and reliability we need to focus on what we do best as a company and at a fraction of the cost of outsourcing to a cloud provider."

Dr. Earl Joseph, CEO, Hyperion Research, LLC
"Over the last five years, Dell has grown faster than any other major HPC vendor, Dell EMC is delivering the entire solution stack to make HPC and artificial intelligence easier for organizations. Dell EMC's approach is helping to expand the HPC market to include both traditional and emerging HPC workloads and simplifies technology adoption for non-traditional HPC adopters."

Patrick McGinn, vice president, product marketing and business development, CoolIT Systems
"By providing the opportunity to witness liquid cooling in action, Dell EMC allows customers to assess configuration options and performance capabilities before taking the next step to implementation. CoolIT is proud to enable PowerEdge servers with liquid cooling to support higher wattage processors for increased performance, energy efficiency and rack-level density in today's modern data center."

Ian Buck, vice president and general manager, NVIDIA Tesla Data Center Business
"Artificial Intelligence is a strategic imperative for every major industry and company. Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs provide a unified platform for accelerating HPC and AI to help enterprises innovate with incredible speed in ways previously not possible."

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