Dell celebrates the AI Factory’s anniversary by expanding infrastructure, introducing powerful AI PCs, and enhancing data solutions.
Marking the first anniversary of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies announced a comprehensive expansion of its AI infrastructure portfolio, AI developer workstations, software, and professional services. These advancements are tailored to simplify and accelerate enterprise AI deployments at all scales—from individual developers to large data center implementations.
As enterprises increasingly rely on artificial intelligence for competitive advantage, efficient AI adoption has become critical. Recent surveys indicate over 75% of organizations expect their infrastructure providers to deliver comprehensive, streamlined AI solutions. Dell’s collaboration with NVIDIA directly addresses this demand, offering customers a unified platform that integrates hardware, software, and services.
Expanded Dell AI Infrastructure Portfolio
Dell Pro Max Portfolio: Redefining the AI Developer PC
Dell’s expanded Dell Pro Max portfolio establishes a new standard for AI developer systems, combining powerful NVIDIA architectures with cutting-edge compute performance in user-friendly form factors.
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Dell Pro Max with GB10:The Dell Pro Max GB10 is a compact workstation designed for AI developers, featuring NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. It delivers up to one petaflop (1000 TFLOPs) of FP4 AI compute performance and 128GB of unified memory, allowing for quick local development, training, and testing of AI models before scaling to larger Dell infrastructure.
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Dell Pro Max with GB300: The Dell Pro Max GB300 features the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, delivering 20 petaflops of AI computing power. With 784GB of unified system memory—288GB of HBME3e GPU memory and 496GB of LPDDR5X CPU memory—and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC networking, it’s perfect for training AI models with up to 460 billion parameters.
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Dell Pro Max Notebooks and Desktops: These new systems combine NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs, Intel Core Ultra processors, and AMD Ryzen Copilot+ CPUs for impressive performance. Their sleek design is ideal for tasks ranging from design simulations to real-time AI inferencing.
Next-Gen PowerEdge Servers
Dell also introduced new PowerEdge servers specifically optimized for enterprise AI workloads:
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Dell PowerEdge XE7740 & XE7745 Servers:
These servers support NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra platform, featuring the HGX NVL16, NVL72, and RTX Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. With up to 288GB of HBM3e memory and 800 Gb/s throughput via NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs, they excel in generative AI, inference, model fine-tuning, and high-performance computing. Available configurations also include NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, enhancing reasoning and agentic AI capabilities.
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Dell PowerEdge XE8712: The PowerEdge XE8712 is optimized for large-scale AI and HPC simulations. It utilizes the GB200 NVL4 platform to support up to 144 NVIDIA B200 GPUs per Dell IR7000 rack. Its advanced liquid cooling enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and conserves data center space.
Robust Dell AI Data Management Solutions
The Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA integrates seamlessly with NVIDIA’s AI Data Platform reference design, creating an efficient data pipeline that supports continuous AI-ready data processing. At the core is Dell PowerScale storage, recently validated by NVIDIA for enterprise AI factory deployments. Enhanced hardware and software optimizations have improved GPU utilization, with data ingestion now 220% faster and retrieval times improved by 99%, surpassing NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD performance benchmarks.
Dell PowerScale also supports NVIDIA Dynamo, freeing GPU resources by offloading Key-Value cache data to Dell storage systems, further optimizing GPU-intensive workloads.
Expanded AI Software and Professional Services
Dell continues to enhance its AI Factory solutions with new validated software platforms and professional services:
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Simplifying Agentic AI: Dell has integrated tools like NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprints, AgentIQ Toolkit, NIM, NeMo Retriever, and Llama Nemotron within the NVIDIA AI Enterprise suite. The new Dell Accelerator Services for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) helps enterprises integrate AI solutions with their existing data, maximizing ROI.
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Optimized AI Orchestration with NVIDIA Run:ai: Validated by the Dell AI Factory, NVIDIA Run:ai enables efficient GPU resource management and accelerated AI workflow orchestration on-premises.
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Dell Services for GenAI Digital Assistants: Aligned with NVIDIA’s scalable blueprint architecture, these services enable enterprises to deliver multilingual, human-centric digital assistant experiences, elevating customer engagement.
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Dell AI Code Assistant and Implementation Services: The Dell AI Code Assistant offers enterprises secure, on-premises code-generation capabilities powered by advanced agentic AI, ensuring context-aware code suggestions.
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