Dell EMC now owns one of the Top500 supercomputers inside its HPC lab for its innovation customers and partners to use. The system, otherwise known as Zenith, is designed to complement the efforts of Dell in a bid to advance HPC solutions from its workgroup to the Top500.
The goal of the lab is providing a location where companies can test new technologies, cooperate with other experienced engineers and see the advantages of using a system that merges the latest new discoveries in computing, storage, and networking.
The supercomputer also lets Dell EMC and Intel illustrate the performance as well as the power that can be actualized for the most demanding of workloads thus driving a need for change whereby enterprises are improving their HPC requirements.
With growing compute demands, a further complication of analytics and simulation routines, the volume of data needing this computing power keeps on increasing. Een though the workloads might be different, the HPC problems are similar in varying industries such as energy, manufacturing, finance and life sciences and the workflows can be affected by any number of factors.
Consequently, organizations of all sizes find the need for computing resources that rival those found in government labs and educational supercomputer hubs. Specifically, to meet today’s demands organizations have a whole lot of hardware and software elements which must be carefully chosen, tightly integrated into the existing system and controlled over time. Unfortunately, not many of them have the time, budget or in-house expertise in exotic technologies to be able to pull this off. Additionally, there is not standard configuration or protocol to ensure that a system is capable of meeting the needs of a business.
Due to the great complexities involved in selecting the best technology and bringing disparate elements of an HPC system together, organizations are in a position to greatly profit by testing workloads on a real system. This is believed to allow the companies to have a better understanding of these technologies and combinations of software and hardware so as to deliver the performance and reliability for business-critical workloads. It is just what Dell EMC has got in mind with the strides being made at their HPC innovation lab. When they investigate a new HPC technology, they have to test it thoroughly in order to understand its influence on the system and execution. The work is then shared with partners and customers who are looking for such infrastructure to handle their growing data demands.
from ZDS Europe http://www.zds-europe.com/2016/12/28/taking-supercomputing-into-the-enterprise/
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