Reference Guide

System Building Blocks
10 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ Processors—ANSYS®
Performance
For customers desiring a shared high-performance parallel filesystem, the Dell MC Ready Solutions for HPC
Lustre Storage solution shown in Figure 3 is appropriate. This solution can scale up to multiple petabytes of
storage.
Figure 3 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Lustre Storage Reference Architecture
2.5 System Networks
Most HPC systems are configured with two networks—an administration network and a high-speed/low-
latency switched fabric. The administration network is typically Gigabit Ethernet that connects to the onboard
LOM/NDC of every server in the cluster. This network is used for provisioning, management and
administration. On the CBB servers, this network is also normally used for IPMI hardware management. For
infrastructure and storage servers, the iDRAC Ethernet interfaces may be connected to this network for OOB
server management. The management network is typically deployed using Dell Networking S3048-ON
Ethernet switches. If there is more than one switch in the system, multiple switches can be stacked with 10
Gigabit Ethernet cables.
A high-speed/low-latency fabric is recommended for clusters with more than four servers. The current
recommendation is a Mellanox HDR or EDR InfiniBand fabric. The fabric will typically be assembled using
Mellanox QB8700 series or SB7800 series InfiniBand switches. The number of switches required depends on
the size of the cluster and the blocking ratio of the fabric.
2.6 Cluster Management Software
The cluster management software is used to install and monitor the HPC system. Bright Cluster Manager
(BCM) is the recommended cluster management software.