Dell is announcing expansion and differentiation in its converged infrastructure (CI) line to meet the applications of a wide-range of workplace requirements in medical, science, finance and other sectors. Dell’s CIs can be tailored for specific workloads and applications to enhance productivity and performance while reducing expenses. This announcement focuses on a few of Dell’s latest offerings including Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences, Dell Active Infrastructure 1.1 and Dell Modular Data Center, while we are also covering the PowerEdge VRTX. All of these products from Dell features more robust performance, greater management and cost-savings.
Dell is announcing expansion and differentiation in its converged infrastructure (CI) line to meet the applications of a wide-range of workplace requirements in medical, science, finance and other sectors. Dell’s CIs can be tailored for specific workloads and applications to enhance productivity and performance while reducing expenses. This announcement focuses on a few of Dell’s latest offerings including Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences, Dell Active Infrastructure 1.1 and Dell Modular Data Center, while we are also covering the PowerEdge VRTX. All of these products from Dell features more robust performance, greater management and cost-savings.
Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences
Dell is announcing Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences (high performance computing) targeted at meeting the needs of genomic data collection and analysis. The solution is based on Dell’s Translation Genomics Research Institute (TGen) which reduced genomics analysis time from a week to just one day using an HPC solution designed for the world’s first personalized medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
Computational and storage requirements of genomic research have bottlenecked engineering from scientific breakthroughs in medicine including cancer therapy, drug design, forensics, biofuels and agriculture. The Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences solution is easily deployable and boosts performance to enable researchers to gather necessary data and information at a much faster rate of speed.
The Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences solution creates a wide-range of capabilities that researchers can utilize. With just a single system, 38 genomes can be processed daily (256/week). This robust performance increases productivity across a range of applications as timelines to gather information are drastically reduced. Additionally, the system enables organizations to keep their infrastructure in-house to reduce costs, while still maintaining compliance and data security.
Dell Active Infrastructure 1.1
Dell Active Infrastructure launched in October 2012, and today Dell is announcing Active Infrastructure 1.1, their latest wave of offerings that accelerate the delivery of business applications and IT services, improve data center efficiency and enhance IT service. Dell has newly validated workloads and with custom templates and validated reference architectures, IT administrators can decrease time and steps to provision new workloads by about 99%.
Dell is also expanding their CI platforms and reference architectures to include the Dell Active System 50, Dell Active System 200 and Dell Active System 1000, on top of the previously launched Active System 800. These pre-integrated systems come in a range of sizes and are designed for varying applications. Further, they enable up to six times faster implementation of virtual infrastructure.
Also being announced, Dell’s Active System Manager 7.1 for Active System integrates IP that Dell obtained during their recent Gale Technologies acquisition. This enables administrators to automate workload and infrastructure deployment through a single console. Active System Manager enables users to go from eight tools down to just one, and the new Active System Manager 7.1 features virtual integration which includes support for the Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere platforms, stateless computing for workload scaling and migrations, rapid infrastructure on-boarding for discovering assets, and a broad compatibility matrix that includes support for Dell and heterogeneous environments.
Dell Modular Data Center
Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) is launching a new version of its modular architecture that combines Dell PowerEdge servers with increased operational capacity and flexibility. The new Dell Modular Data Center (MDC) assists users that currently operate scale-out data centers in quickly and cost-effectively deploying resources. The Dell MDC is composed of individual power, IT and cooling modules that snap together. Customers can easily scale MDC capacity by adding modules.
Dell’s MDC now supports one megawatt (1MW) of critical workloads using 100% free-air and evaporative cooling. The design also allows for the hot movement of fully-loaded racks to reduce TCO. Also, MDC features high availability with redundant power feeds that support an average rack power capacity of 40 kilowatts.
Availability
Dell HPC for Life Sciences Active Infrastructure will be available in the starting in August. The Dell Active Infrastructure 1.1 portfolio will be available to order in late June 2013. Dell’s megawatt-capacity MDC is currently already available from DCS.
Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences
