As NVIDIA kicks off GTC 2023 today with a raft of announcements, Dell Technologies sent a reminder that the Dell PowerEdge XE9680, announced in November during SC22, is shipping on March 22! The XE9680 is Dell’s first 8-way GPU platform to ship with NVIDIA H100 GPUs or NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
As NVIDIA kicks off GTC 2023 today with a raft of announcements, Dell Technologies sent a reminder that the Dell PowerEdge XE9680, announced in November during SC22, is shipping on March 22! The XE9680 is Dell’s first 8-way GPU platform to ship with either the NVIDIA H100 GPUs or NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
Dell PowerEdge XE9680
The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is designed to help businesses accelerate AI/ML performance powering complex workloads and applications requiring AI, like HPC modeling and data visualization. This new system improves training performance up to 1.5x more than the previous generation.
Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Cabled
This is a 6U server designed to drive the latest cutting-edge AI, ML, and DL Neural Network applications. Powered by Intel’s latest Xeon processors with a high core count of up to 56 cores and the most GPU memory and bandwidth available today, the XE9680 has been designed for the future of AI computing.
Customers can choose between eight NVIDIA H100 700W SXM5 for extreme performance or eight NVIDIA A100 500W SXM4 GPUs for a balance of performance and power and fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology. Training performance is improved with up to 900GB/s bandwidth for GPU-GPU communication making it 1.5x the previous generation.
Dell PowerEdge XE9680
With accelerated I/O throughput features, the XE9680 includes technologies like DDR5, NVLink, PCIe Gen 5.0, and NVMe SSDs. The server has up to ten front-facing PCIe Gen5 slots and up to 16 drives to enable expansion for high-performance real-time AI operations. It also supports NVIDIA GDS (GPUDirect Storage), a direct data path for DMA transfers between GPU memory and storage, increasing system bandwidth and decreasing latency and utilization load on the CPU.
Cyber Resilient Architecture for Zero Trust
Security is integrated into every phase of the PowerEdge lifecycle, including a protected supply chain and factory-to-site integrity assurance. Silicon-based root of trust delivers end-to-end boot resilience while Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls ensure trusted operations.
The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio is a secure, comprehensive solution for PowerEdge servers that will simplify, automate, and centralize one-to-many management with the OpenManage Enterprise console and iDRAC.
Market Impact
We had the opportunity to get hands-on with the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 in Round Rock a few weeks ago. The platform is exceedingly impressive and really launches Dell headfirst into the conversation when it comes to emerging analytics and intelligence workloads. And while liquid-cooled solutions will certainly lead the pack soon for GPU-dense solutions, Dell has managed to offer the XE9680 in an air-cooled design, making it a perfect fit for non-HPC environments.
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