Tech
giant Dell EMC has announced a new collection of high performance computing
(HPC) cloud offerings, software and systems to make more HPC services available
to enterprises of all sizes, optimize HPC technology innovations, and advance
the HPC community.
"The
global HPC market forecast exceeds $30 billion in 2016 for all product and
services spending, including servers, software, storage, cloud, and other
categories, with continued growth expected at 5.2 percent CAGR through
2020," said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, in a statement.
"Bolstered by its combination with EMC, Dell will hold the number-one
position in total HPC revenue share heading into 2017."
Democratizing
HPC
Among
the new products and services is the new HPC System for Life Sciences, which
will be available with the PowerEdge C6320p Server (pictured above) by the
first quarter 2017. The company said the new life sciences service accelerates
results for bioinformatics centers to identify treatments in clinically
relevant timeframes while protecting confidential data.
"Highly
parallelized computing plays an important role in high performance
computing," said Ed Turkel, HPC Strategist at Dell EMC, in the statement.
"Compared to serial computing, parallel computing is much better suited
for modeling, simulating and understanding complex, real world phenomena. In
many cases, serial programs 'waste' potential computing power." The
PowerEdge C6320p Server is specifically designed to address this parallel
processing environment to drive improved performance and faster big data
analysis, Turkel said.
The
company also said that it will begin offering new cloud bursting services from
Cycle Computing to enable cloud orchestration and management between some of
the largest public cloud services, including Azure and AWS. Dell said the
service allows customers to more efficiently utilize their on-premises systems
while providing access to the resources of the public cloud for HPC needs.
The
company will also offer customers the Intel HPC Orchestrator later this quarter
to help simplify the installation, management and ongoing maintenance of
high-performance computing systems. HPC Orchestrator, which is based on the
OpenHPC open source project, can help accelerate enterprises' installations and
management.
Optimizing
the HPC Porftolio
Dell
EMC has been increasingly placing its bets on HPC services, unveiling a
portfolio of several new HPC technologies earlier this month. For example, the
company introduced its PowerEdge C4130 and R730 servers designed to boost
throughput and improve cost savings for HPC and hyperscale data centers to
support more deep learning applications and artificial intelligence techniques
in technological and scientific fields such as DNA sequencing.
"Dell
EMC is uniquely capable of breaking through the barriers of data-centric HPC
and navigating new and varied workloads that are converging with big data and
cloud," said Jim Ganthier, senior vice president, Validated Solutions and
HPC Organization, Dell EMC, in the statement. "We are collaborating with
the HPC community, including our customers, to advance and optimize HPC
innovations while making these capabilities easily accessible and deployable for
organizations and businesses of all sizes."
