Reference Guide

5 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI Deep Learning with NVIDIA | v1.0
1 Solution Overview
Dell EMC has developed an architecture for Deep Learning that provides a complete, supported solution. This
solution includes carefully selected technologies across all aspects of Deep Learning, processing capabilities,
memory, storage and network technologies as well as the software ecosystem. This complete solution is
provided as s for AI Deep Learning with NVIDIA. The solution includes fully
integrated and optimized hardware, software, and services including deployment, integration and support
making it easier for organizations to start and grow their Deep Learning practice.
The high level overview of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI - Deep Learning is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Overview of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI - Deep Learning
Data Scientist Portal: This is a new portal for data scientists created for this solution. It enables data scientists,
who should not need to be experts in cluster technologies, to use a simple web portal to take advantage of the
underlying technology. The scientists can write, train and do inference for different Deep Learning models within
Jupyter Notebook which includes Python 2, Python 3, R and other kernels.
Bright Cluster Manager and Bright Machine Learning: Bright Cluster Manager is used for the monitoring,
deployment, management, and maintenance of the cluster. The Bright Machine Learning (ML) includes the
deep learning frameworks, libraries, and compilers and so on.
Deep Learning Frameworks and Libraries: This category includes TensorFlow, MXNet, Caffe2, CUDA,
cuDNN, and NCCL. The latest version of these frameworks and libraries are integrated into the solution.
Infrastructure: The infrastructure comprises of a cluster with a master node, compute nodes, shared storage
and networks. In this instance of the solution, the master node is a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd, each compute
node is PowerEdge C4140 with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, the storage includes Network File System (NFS) and
Isilon, and the networks include Ethernet and Mellanox InfiniBand.