Reference Guide

System Building Blocks
9 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ Processors—Altair Performance
Operational storage is typically sized based on the number of expected users. For fewer than 30 users, a
single storage server, such as the Dell PowerEdge R7515 is often an appropriate choice. A suitably equipped
storage server may be:
• Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 server
• AMD EPYC 7302P processor
• 128GB of memory, 8 x 16GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
• PERC H745 RAID controller
• 2 x 240GB Mixed-use SATA SSD in RAID-1 (For OS)
• 12 x 12TB 3.5” NLSAS HDDs in RAID-6 (for data)
• Dell EMC iDRAC9 Enterprise
• 2 x 750W Power Supplies
• Mellanox ConnectX-6 InfiniBand Adapter (optional)
• High-speed Ethernet Adapter (optional)
This server configuration would provide 144TB of raw storage. For customers expecting between 25-100
users, an operational storage solution, such as the Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC NFS Storage (NSS),
shown in Figure 2, with up 1008TB of raw storage capacity may be appropriate:
Figure 2 NSS7.4-HA Storage System Architecture