Dell Technologies Launches Two New Ready Solutions
Support for accelerating genomics and digital manufacturing workloads
Expanding global collaboration to implement HPC and AI as a service


Dell Technologies announced on the 24th that it is launching two new 'Dell EMC Ready Solutions' products that support high performance computing (HPC) for digital manufacturing, including biotechnology and healthcare, and is expanding global collaboration to implement HPC and AI as a service.

“Data is the critical fuel for humanity’s new future,” said Kim Kyung-jin, President and CEO of Dell Technologies Korea. “What’s important for data scientists is to utilize AI applications more effectively and minimize the time it takes to gain insight.”


HPC Genomics Solutions Accelerate Genome Analysis
The Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Genomics is designed and tested to enable rapid deployment of genomics analysis systems into operational environments. Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Dell EMC PowerSwitch networking, and Dell EMC storage are modular and can be tailored to specific needs.

Software and workload management specialized for bioinformatics enable users to process complex genomic data more quickly, predicting disease patterns and treatment outcomes, and providing personalized treatment plans for each patient. TGen Research in the US announced that using this solution, it was able to reduce genome sequencing time from two weeks to less than eight hours.


HPC digital manufacturing solutions that support rapid product design
Rapidly developing innovative products is a core competency for engineering teams today. However, in the design process, which requires examining multiple scenarios, modeling and simulating new options can slow down development.

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing, which includes the Altair Hyperworks Unlimited appliance, is designed to integrate Dell Technologies' servers, storage, and networking equipment with Altair's simulation applications and HPC middleware.

Users can reduce HPC complexity, meet growing computing demands, and run simulations at a reasonable cost through this solution, which is provided as a managed service. Supporting both on-premises and cloud deployments, engineers and scientists can easily access HPC clusters to accelerate product development.

Royal Enfield, a motorcycle manufacturer, has adopted it for pre- and post-processing, applying it to complex finite element models and other analysis tasks. "What previously took three or four days at a time can now be done multiple times a day, accelerating development cycles," explains Rod Giles, Royal Enfield's Head of CAD Engineering.

Additionally, Dell EMC Ready Solutions with Bright Cluster Manager from Bright Computing automates the process of building and managing modern, high-performance clusters.

Bright's latest offering integrates VMware technologies for virtualization, containers, and multicloud management, enabling customers to leverage existing VMware clusters to run more AI workloads. Provisioning, monitoring, and management changes are all included in a single tool, making it usable throughout the entire cluster lifecycle.

You can build clusters in the public cloud through dynamic cloud provisioning or expand physical clusters to public clusters to gain additional capacity.


Partnerships with three companies to provide HPC and AI as a service
Building an as-a-Service model to access HPC resources in the cloud makes it easier to achieve your goals at a reasonable cost. This economic feasibility can unlock new innovative opportunities for data-intensive workloads like AI and high-performance data analytics.

Dell Technologies has signed agreements with DXC Technology in Asia Pacific and Japan, R Systems in North America, and Verne Global in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to provide managed services, hosting, colocation, and on-demand resources.

Spire Global is a startup that tracks and analyzes oceanographic, aviation, and weather pattern data collected from a large constellation of nanosatellites. Because Spire's analysis requires the system to be accessed at regular intervals, the company sought ways to maximize system utilization rather than investing heavily in fixed-scale HPC systems.

After considering several alternatives, Spire chose R-Systems' HPC-as-a-Service, built to scale and adapt to organic growth. This approach allowed Spire to focus solely on its core business of weather analysis, without having to hire dedicated HPC infrastructure staff or worry about complex design, management, and maintenance.