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DellEMCReadySolutionsforAI,MachineandDeepLearning

Providingtheexpertiserequiredtoacceleratetheevolutionofhumanprogressintheageofartificialintelligence

TableofContents

Thefutureofartificialintelligenceisnow 2

Areyoufacinganyofthesechallenges? 3

Understandingartificialintelligence,machineanddeeplearning 4

DellEMCReadySolutionsforMachineandDeepLearning 5

DellEMCMachineandDeepLearningReferenceConfigurations 6

WhyDellEMC? 9

Servicesandfinancing 10

Whywait? 11

Solutionoverview

Solutionoverview

Faster,betteranddeeperinsights

Enhancedefficiencyandsecurity

Trustedexpertise

69.2%ofCFOs

surveyedsayartificialintelligenceandmachinelearningare“criticallyimportant”or“veryimportant”tothebusiness1

75%

ofenterpriseandindependentsoftwarevendor(ISV)developmentwillincludeAIormachinelearninginatleast

oneapplication2

Thefutureofartificialintelligenceisnow

Artificialintelligence(AI)anditssupportingcomputingmodels—machineanddeeplearning—aredecades-oldtechnologiesthatarejustnowbeginningtotakeoff.WhyisAIsohotrightnow?Thereasonislikelyaconvergenceofmultipleforces.First,the

industryismakingincrediblebreakthroughsinAI,especiallyindeeplearning.Second,themainstreamingofhigh-performancecomputing(HPC)ismakingadvancedcomputingpoweravailableandaffordableforamuchwiderrangeofcompanies.Andthird,thereisalotmoredataavailabletofuelAI—withmorebeingproducedeverysecond.

Thisperfectstormiscreatinganopportunityforyoutoquicklyidentifytrendsandpatternsthatotherwisewouldbedifficultandtime-consumingtodetect.Whateveryourindustryvertical,machineanddeeplearningcanchangeeverything.Whetheryou’rejustgettingstarted,orwhetheryou’vebeendoingAI,machinelearningordeeplearningforsometime,DellEMCcanhelpyoucapitalizeonthelatesttechnologicaladvances,savingyoutimeandmoneywhilereducingrisk.

PushingtheboundariesofAI,machineanddeeplearning

DellEMCisattheforefrontofAI,providingthetechnologythatmakestomorrowpossible,today.DellEMCuniquelyprovidesanextensiveportfoliooftechnologies—spanningworkstations,servers,networking,storage,softwareandservices—tocreatethehigh-performancecomputing(HPC)anddataanalyticssolutionsthatunderpinsuccessfulAI,machineanddeeplearningimplementations.What’smore,DellEMChasinvestedtocreateaportfolioofReadySolutionsdesignedtoprovidefaster,betteranddeeperinsights,deliveredwithefficiencyandsecurity.YoucanrelyontheDellEMCteamofexpertstohelpyouadaptasAI,machineanddeeplearningevolveovertime.

Faster,betteranddeeperinsights

Datascientists,developersandresearchersareusingmachinelearningtogaininsightspreviouslyoutofreach.Programsthatlearnfromexperiencearehelpingthemdiscoverhowthehumangenomeworks,understandconsumerbehaviortoadegreeneverbeforepossible,andbuildsystemsforpurchaserecommendations,imagerecognitionandfraudprevention,amongotheruses.DellEMCmachineanddeeplearningsolutionsempoweryoutoidentifypatterns,analyzevastamountsofdataandautomatetaskssoyoucangetinsightsfaster,betteranddeeper.

Enhancedefficiencyandsecurity

Whileit’samulti-cloudworld,thedata-intensiveworkloadsassociatedwithmachineanddeeplearningarenotalwaysbestsuitedtorunninginthecloud.Bymakingon-premisessolutionsobtainableforenterprisesofallsizes,DellEMCReadySolutionsforMachineandDeepLearningcanhelpoptimizetheefficiencyandsecurityinAI,machineanddeeplearningenvironmentsbothon-andoff-premises.

Trustedexpertise

TheDellEMCHPCInnovationLabteamofengineerscontinuallytestsnewtechnologiesandworkscollaborativelytotunesolutionsforindustry-leadingapplications.Inadditiontoworld-classengineers,theHPCInnovationLabhasaTOP500supercomputerandextensiveindustrypartnerships,bringingtogetheracommunityofthebrightestmindsfocusedonusingAI,machineanddeeplearning.TheknowledgeandexperienceofDellEMCanditsstrongecosystemoftechnologypartnerscanhelpyougetstartedwithmachineanddeeplearningsolutionsquickly.

1CNBC.com,“

OnequarterofCFO

CouncilmemberssayA.I.is‘critical’

totheircompanies

,”June2017.

2IDCFutureScapepresentation,“

Worldwide

Analytics,Cognitive/AIandBigData

2017Predictions

,”December2016. 2

“TheHPCInnovationLabgivesourcustomersaccesstocutting-edgetechnology,likethelatest-generationDellEMCproducts,ScalableSystemFrameworkfromIntel,InfiniBandgearfrom

Mellanox,NVIDIAGPUs,BrightComputingsoftwareandmore.Customerscanbringustheirworkloads,andwecanhelpthemtuneasolutionbeforethetechnologyisreadilyavailable.”

—GarimaKochhar,SystemsSr.PrincipalEngineer

LearnmoreabouttheDell

EMCHPCInnovationLab

.

Areyoufacinganyofthesechallenges?

“Wehaven’tbeenabletotakefulladvantageofourdata.”

Dataisgrowingatanastronomicalrateandit’simpossibletotakefulladvantageofitmanuallytogetinsightstowin.Automationcanhelpprovidefaster,betteranddeeperdatainsights.DellEMCReadySolutionsforAI,MachineandDeepLearningcanprovidetheprocessingpowerrequiredforthevastnumberofcalculationsthatneedtobemade

veryquickly—forfacialrecognition,forexample.Withthespeedofautomatedimageandpatterndetection,thesesolutionscanhelpprovidebetterdatainsights.Andwithhistoricaldatasets,youcangetdeeperinsightsinto,forexample,buyingbehavior.

“Wecan’taffordtorunmachineanddeeplearninginthecloud.”

Somepubliccloudproviderschargetogetdataout,andthatcangetexpensivequicklywiththelargedatasetsrequiredfordeeperinsightssuchasimagerecognitionandfrauddetection.DellEMCReadySolutionsforAI,MachineandDeepLearningcanreducecostsassociatedwithmovingsignificantamountsofdatainandoutofthecloudwhileminimizingrisks.

“Wedon’thavethein-houseexpertise.”

AIandrelatedcomputingparadigmsareemergingquicklyandnotmanyorganizationshavehadthetimeorresourcestodeveloptheskillsrequiredtodesign,deployandmanageadvancedmachineanddeeplearningsolutions.TheDellEMCHPCInnovationLabteamstaysonthecuttingedgeofAI,testingnewtechnologies,andtuningalgorithmsandapplicationstohelpyoukeeppacewiththeconstantlyevolvinglandscape.Thisteamofindustryandtechnologyexpertscanhelpyouachievefastertimetoresultsbyshorteningbothdesigncycleandconfigurationtime.Theseexpertscanworkwithyoutocreateasolutionwiththerightfeatures,attherightprice.YoucaneventakeatestdrivewiththeHPCInnovationLabwithaproofofconcept,inoneoftheCustomerSolutionCenters,orinoneofDellEMC’sworldwideHPCInnovationCenters.

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“Oneofthethingsthat’sreallyexcitingaboutdeeplearningisthatit’stakingalotofproblemsthatusedtobeveryspecializedand transferring[them]

intoanengineeringproblem,sothatpeopleevenwithoutalotofdomainexpertiseareabletosolvehardproblemsinmanydifferentdomainsAnd,because

ofthis…deeplearningisgoingtobeappliedverywidelyinalotofsurprisingplaces”

—BryanCatanzaro,Ph.D,

VicePresident,AppliedDeepLearningResearchatNVIDIA

Seemore

.

“‘BuoyedbyMoore’sLawandfedbyadelugeofdata,AIisattheheartofmuchoftoday’stechnicalinnovation’Withusecases

andsolutionsledbyartificialintelligencespanningacrossagriculture,sports,financialinstitutions,autonomouscars,healthcare,educationandmore,theracetotaptheburgeoningmarketissettobecomemorecompetitiveWithitsfocuson

AI,Intelispreparingtostayaheadofitscompetitorswithtechnologicalinnovation”3

3Nasdaqcom,“

Intel’sFutureLieswith

ArtificialIntelligence

,”June2017.

Understandingartificialintelligence,machineanddeeplearning

Thesethreeconceptsarecloselyintertwined.Theumbrellaterm,AI,referstomachineintelligence,whilemachineanddeeplearningarethetechnologiesthatunderpinAIandmakeitpossible.

Machinelearningreferstotheprocessof“training”themachine,feedinglargeamountsofdataintoalgorithmsthatgiveittheabilitytolearnhowtoperformthetask.Deeplearningmakescodingmoreefficientbycombiningcomponents(suchasconvolutionandpooling)andheuristics(suchasdropoutandbatchnormalization)toenhancegeneralizationperformance.

Fromacomputationalperspective,it’sthedeeplearningpartofAIthatrequiresmorecomputeacceleration,memoryandhigherbandwidthinput/output(I/O).Thisisalsoanareawherespecializedacceleratorshaveabetteradvantageandaremoresuitedtosolvingtheseneuralnetmodels.

DellEMCismakingmachineanddeeplearningpossibleinamoremeaningfulway—withmorepowerfulprocessorsandfastercomputingcapability—tomakethistechnologyachievableforbusinessesinawiderangeofindustries.

ReadmoreaboutthedifferencebetweenAI,machineanddeeplearning

.

Machineanddeeplearningusecases

Healthcareandlifesciences

Financialservices

Governmentsecurityanddefense

Mediaandentertainment

Druginteraction

Cancerdetection

Chronicillnessprediction

Drugdiscovery

Genemutation

Sanitation

Fraudprevention

Riskmanagement

Investmentpredictions

Customerservice

Digitalassistants

Networksecurity

Facialrecognition

Videosurveillance

Cybersecurity

Satelliteimagery

Eventprediction

Emergencyservice

Videocaptioning

Content-basedsearch

Real-timetranslation

Languageprocessing

Contentsuggestionsbasedonselectionsover

time

Manufacturing

Energy

Transportation

Retail

Smartmanufacturingsystems

Factoryanddemandanalyticsandoptimization

Preventativemaintenance

Relationshipintelligence

Productand

servicequality

Windpowergeneration

Solarforecasts

Oilproductionoptimization

Weatherprediction

Predictionofconsumptiondemand

Autonomousvehicles

Pedestrianandobjectdetection

Lanetrackingandtrafficpatterns

Preventativemaintenance

Riskassessment

Supplyanddemandplanning

Predictingbuyingbehavior

Lossprevention

Upsell,cross-sellopportunities

Customerandproductmovementtracking

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DellEMCReadySolutionsforMachineandDeepLearning

DellEMCengineerscanworkwithyoutocreatesolutionsthatcandramaticallyaccelerateresultsinAI,machineanddeeplearningenvironments.Ourmachineanddeeplearningsolutionsarebasedonascalablebuilding-blockapproach,sothesolutionsyoubuytodaycangrowtomeetyourneedsinthefuture.

DellEMCMachineLearningReadyBundlewithHadoop

Validatedsolutionforimagerecognition

TheDellEMCMachineLearningReadyBundlewithHadoopbuildsonthepoweroftestedandprovenDellEMCReadyBundlesforHadoop,createdinpartnershipwithCloudera?andHortonworks?.Thesolutionincludesanoptimizedsolutionstackalongwithdatascienceandframeworkoptimization,soyoucangetupandrunningquickly.

Ifyou’rerunningApache?Spark?,youcantakeadvantageoftheBigDLdistributeddeeplearninglibraryforApacheSpark,forafasterpathtoenablingmachinelearningandtomakingdeeplearningmoreaccessiblefornon-expertbigdatausersanddatascientists.BigDLintegratesintotheApacheHadoop?frameworksandtools,enablingdeeplearningonthesameHadoop/Sparkclusterwheredataisstored.

ThesolutionalsoleveragesDataRobot?,anadvancedenterpriseautomatedmachinelearningsolutionthatencapsulatestheknowledge,experienceandbestpracticesoftheworld’sleadingdatascientists,enablingyoutoquicklyandeasilybuildhighlyaccuratepredictivemodelswithoutpreviouscodingandmachinelearningskills.

Simplifythedesign,architecture,deploymentandconfigurationofaHadoopenvironmentwithmachinelearning.

Gainbusinessinsightstobuilduniquecompetitiveadvantages.

Vastlyreducethetime,effort,andresourcesspentontryingtobuild,architectandmaintainamachinelearningsolution.

LeverageDellEMCServicestohelpbridgethegapbetweendatascience,ITandlinesofbusiness.

DellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithIntel

Validatedsolutionforimagerecognitionandfrauddetectionwithaneasy-to-usetoolsetTheDellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithIntelsimplifiesandacceleratestheadoptionofdeeplearningtechnologywithanoptimizedsolutionstackthatsimplifies

theentireworkflowfrommodelbuildingtotrainingtoinferencing.TheDellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithIntelincludesthehardware,softwareandservicesyouneedtogetupandrunningwithasolutionquickly.

Getanoptimizedsolutionfromtheservertosoftwarestack—includingsoftwaredevelopmentanddatascience.

SimplifyandaccelerateadoptionofAIwitheasy-to-usetoolsets.

LeverageDellEMCServicestobridgethegapbetweenthedatascience,ITandlinesofbusiness.

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DellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithNVIDIA

ValidatedsolutionforimagerecognitionandfrauddetectionwithblazingperformanceTheDellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithNVIDIAprovidesaGPU-optimizedsolutionstackthatcanshavevaluabletimefromdeeplearningprojects.DellEMCengineerscanhelpyouconfigure,testandtuneGPU-enabledhardwareandsoftware,withincludedservicestohelpdatascientistsloadanddiscoverinsightfromdatamorequickly.

TheDellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithNVIDIAisbuiltaroundNVIDIA?Tesla?V100GPUs.With640tensorcores,thispowerfulacceleratorwasthefirsttobreakthe100teraFLOPSbarrierfordeeplearningperformance.4NVIDIANVLink?connectsmultipleV100GPUsatupto300GB/stodeliver30XhigherinferenceperformancethanCPU-basedservers.Thislevelofthroughputandefficiencymakesscaling-outmachineanddeeplearningservicesmuchmorefeasible.

Getexpertguidanceonconfiguringandoptimizingthesolutionstackbasedonusecase

—fromservertosoftware,networkingtostorage.

TrainAImodelsthatusedtorequireweeksofcomputingresourcesinjustafewdays.

ScaleAIresourcesmoreeasilyandbridgethegapbetweenthedatascience,ITandlinesofbusiness.

DellEMCMachineandDeepLearningReferenceConfigurations

Validatedsolutionsfortrainingandinferencing

DellEMChaspartneredwithBrightComputing?toofferthesoftwarestackonDellEMChardwareinaportfolioofreferenceconfigurationsformultipleusecases.TheDellEMCHPCteamhasin-depthexperienceworkingcloselywithBrightClusterManager?tocreatesolutionsfromourportfolioofservers,storage,networking,softwareandservices.ThatexpertiseisthenmultipliedthroughcollaborationwithCustomerSolutionCenters,

worldwideHPCInnovationCenters,theHPCInnovationLabandthebroaderdataanalyticscommunity.Theseexpertscanworkwithyoutocreateasolutionwiththerightfeatures,attherightprice.

Meettheperformanceneedsofyourapplicationswithaccelerator-enabledsolutions.

Leverageindustryandtechnologyexpertswhocanhelpyouachievefastertimetoresultsbyshorteningboththesolutiondesigncycleandconfigurationtime.

Growtomeetfutureneedswithsolutionsbasedonascalablebuilding-blockapproach.

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480Level,

NVIDIATeslaV100:TheBest

ProcessorforAIResearch

,May2017.

DellEMCMachineandDeepLearningReadyBundlestechnicalspecifications

Thefollowingsolutionscanbecustomizedandtunedforyourcustomers’specificworkloadneeds.

Configuration

DellEMCMachineLearningReadyBundlewithHadoop

DellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithIntel

DellEMCDeepLearningReadyBundlewithNVIDIA

Software

ClouderaEnterpriseDataHub,DataRobot,Spark,ClouderaDataScienceWorkbench

IntelNervanaDeepLearningStudio

BrightClusterManager

Frameworks/libraries

Caffe

TensorFlow

BigDL

Caffe

TensorFlow

IntelNeon

IntelMathKernelLibraryforDeepNeuralNetworks(MKL-DNN)

IntelMachineLearningScalingLibrary(MLSL)

Caffe

TensorFlow

NVIDIACUDA?DeepNeuralNetworkLibrary(cuDNN)

NVIDIACUDAbasiclinearalgebrasubroutines(cuBLAS)

NVIDIACollective

CommunicationsLibrary(NCCL)

Configuration,optimization,benchmarkinganddatascience

Deployment,hardware,software,API,models

Deployment,hardware,software,API,models

Benchmarking,serverconfigurationandnetworkguidance

Modellibraries

N/A

Jumpstartmodelsanddatasets

N/A

DellEMCMachineandDeepLearningReferenceConfigurationstechnicalspecifications

DellEMCPowerEdgeserverssupportpowerfulacceleratorsatasingle-nodeandmulti-nodelevel,toalignwithdeeplearningapplications.

Configuration

DeepLearningSingleNode“Training”

DeepLearningSingleNode“TrainingandInferencing”

DeepLearningMedium“K”

DeepLearningLarge“K”

Compute

PowerEdgeR740ServerorPowerEdgeT640Server

PowerEdgeR740Server

PowerEdgeC4140Server

PowerEdgeC4140Server

Processor

2xIntelXeon?GoldScalable6150processor

2xIntelXeonGoldScalable6150processor

2xIntelXeonGoldScalable6148processor

2xIntelXeonGoldScalable6148processor

Memory

384GBDDR4@2,667MHz

384GBDDR4@2,667MHz

384GBDDR4@2,667MHz

384GBDDR4@2,667MHz

Drives

PowerEdgeR740:1TBSSDPowerEdgeT640:1TBSSD

1TBSSD

2xSSDR,120G,SATA,M.2,IN,BOSS

2xSSDR,120G,SATA,M.2,IN,BOSS

Networking

N/A

N/A

N/A

Mellanox?InfiniBand?EDR100Gb/swithConnectX?-4VPIadaptercard

Accelerator

PowerEdgeR740:

3xNVIDIATeslaV100PCIe

PowerEdgeT640:

4xNVIDIATeslaV100PCIe

3xNVIDIATeslaP40PCIe

4xNVIDIATeslaP100SXM2

or

4xNVIDIATeslaV100SXM2

4xNVIDIATeslaP100SXM2

or

4xNVIDIATeslaV100SXM2

TOR(TopofRack)switch

N/A

N/A

N/A

SwitchIBTM2basedEDRInfiniBand1USwitch,36QSFP28ports,2PowerSupplies,(AC),x86dualcore,standarddepth

Externalstorage

N/A

N/A

N/A

MD1280withNFS

Headnode

N/A

N/A

N/A

PowerEdgeR740xdServer

Software

BrightClusterManager

BrightClusterManager

BrightClusterManager

BrightClusterManager

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Solutioncomponents

DellEMCPowerEdgeR640Server

offerstheidealbalanceofdensityandscalabilityina1U,2-socketsolutionthat’sbuiltonascalablesystemarchitectureandprovidesthechoiceandflexibilitytoeasilymeetperformancedemands.

DellEMCPowerEdgeT640Server

ispowerful,versatileandscalable,withpeak2-socketperformanceandhugeinternalstoragecapacity.Acceleratedemandingworkloadsandplanforfuturegrowthwithcost-effective,in-serverexpansion.

DellEMCPowerEdgeR740Server

acceleratesapplicationperformancewiththeoptimumbalanceofacceleratorcards,storageandcomputeresourcesina2U,

2-socketserver.

DellEMCPowerEdgeR740xdServer

providesscalablestorageperformanceanddatasetprocessingina2U,2-socketserverwiththescalabilityandperformancetoadapttoavarietyofapplications.

DellEMCPowerEdgeC6320pServer

isabalanced,high-performanceserver,optimizedforhighlyparallelcodeinadense4-node/2Usolution,andidealforworkloadslikefinancialriskanalysis,deeplearningandbigdataanalytics.

DellEMCPowerEdgeC4140Server

drivesdemandingHPC,datavisualizationandrenderingworkloadswithaflexible,dense1UrackserveroptimizedforGPUsandco-processors.

NVIDIATeslaV100GPUaccelerators

offertheperformanceof100CPUsinasingleGPU—enablingdatascientists,researchers,andengineerstotacklechallengesthatwereonceimpossible.

NVIDIATeslaP100GPUaccelerators

deliveraunifiedsolutionforacceleratingAI,withhigherperformanceandfewer,lightning-fastnodes,todramaticallyincreasethroughputwhilealsosavingmoney.

NVIDIATeslaP40GPUaccelerator

isthefirstacceleratortocombineanenterprise-gradevisualcomputingsolutionforsimulation,HPCrendering,anddesignwithvirtualapplications,desktops,andworkstations.

DellEMCNetworkingS4048-ON10/40GbEswitch

isatop-of-rack,high-density1Uswitchwithforty-eight10GbEuplinks.Itoffersultra-low-latencyandlinerateperformancedesignedfordatacenters.

DellEMCS3124iDRACswitch

featureslowlatencyandsuperbperformancedesignedforreliableserveraggregationandcost-effectivedeployment.

DellEMCNetworkingS600040GbEclusterswitches

aretheindustry’sfirstdisaggregatedhardware+softwaredatacenternetworkingsolutionthatempowersorganizationstodeploymodernworkloadsandapplicationsdesignedfortheopennetworkingera.

MellanoxInfiniBand

enhancesserverperformancetoprovidethebandwidthandspeedneededforperformance-drivenserverandstorageapplications.

DellEMCH-SeriesEdgeSwitches

basedonIntelOmni-PathArchitecturedelivertheperformancefortomorrow’sHPCworkloadsandtheabilitytoscaletotensofthousandsofnodes—andeventuallymore—atapricecompetitivewithtoday’sfabrics.

DellEMCReadyBundleforHPCNFSStorage

isreliable,easytoadministerandhasverygoodperformance.InclusterswithhigherI/Orequirements,NFSisagoodoptionforasecondarystoragerepositoryforhomedirectories,applicationstorageandlonger-termstorageofapplicationdata.

DellEMCReadyBundleforHPCLustreStorage

allowsscalingefficientlybothupanddowntosuitworkloadneedswithoutlosingperformanceorcapacity,totapintothepowerandscalabilityofLustre?withsimplifiedinstallation,configurationandmanagementfeatures—oncost-optimizedindustry-standardDellEMCsolutions.

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BrightClusterManagerforHPC

letsyoudeployclustersoverbaremetalwithamanagementviewthatspansthehardware,theoperatingsystem,thesoftwareandusers.

ClouderaEnterpriseDataHub

isonesoftwarepackagewithmanyapplicationsthatrangefromdata

scienceandengineering,topoweringanoperationaldatabase,torunninglarge-scaleanalytics.

ClouderaDataScienceWorkbench

enablesfast,easy,andsecureself-servicedatasciencefor

theenterprise.

ApacheSpark

isanopensourceclustercomputingframework,afastandgeneralengineforlarge-scaledataprocessing.

DataRobot

offersanautomatedmachinelearningsolution,aswellasservicesandeducationtojumpstartthetransformationtoanAI-drivenenterprise.

5IDC,“

WWQuarterlyServerTracker

,”September2017.

6DellEMChasthemostsystemsinXSEDE,includingthelargestsystem.SystemsincludeSDSCComet,SDSC,TACCJetstream,TACCStampede,LSUSuperMICandTACCWrangler.TACCStampede

isthelargestsysteminXSEDE.See“

XSEDEHighPerformanceComputing

.”

7TheNextPlatform,“

SouthAfrican

LengauSystemLeapsTowards

Petaflops

,”June2016.

8IDCWWQuarterlyConvergedSystemsTracker,Q12017,June2017,VendorRevenue.

9IDCWWQuarterlyEnterpriseStorageSystemsTracker,September2017,VendorRevenue—EMCQ22017.

10IDCWWVirtualMachineandCloudSystemMarketShares2016,July2017.

11DellEMCPulse,“

GartnerRecognizes

EMCasaLeaderinthe2016Data

CenterBackupandRecoverySoftware

MagicQuadrant

,”June2016.

12IDCWWSemiannualSoftwareTracker,2H2016,April2017.

Frameworksandlibraries

BigDLisadistributeddeeplearninglibraryforApacheSparkthatcanrundirectlyontopofexistingSparkorHadoopclusters.BigDLcanbeusedtowritedeeplearningapplicationsasScalaorPythonprograms.

Caffeisadeeplearningframeworkmadewithexpression,speedandmodularityinmind.CaffeisdevelopedbytheBerkeleyVisionandLearningCenter(BVLC),aswellascommunitycontributorsandispopularforcomputervision.

IntelMKL-DNNisanopensourceperformancelibraryforaccelerationofdeeplearningframeworksonIntelarchitecture.ItincludeshighlyvectorizedandthreadedbuildingblocksforimplementationofconvolutionalneuralnetworkswithCandC++interfaces.

IntelMLSLisalibraryprovidinganefficientimplementationofcommunicationpatternsusedindeeplearning.Itisoptimizedtodrivescalabilityofcommunicationpatterns.

IntelNeonisadeeplearningframeworkbasedonPythonandoptimizedforIntelarchitecture.Itisdesignedforeaseofuseandextensibilityonmoderndeepneuralnetworks,suchasAlexNet,VisualGeometryGroup(VGG),andGoogLeNet.

NVIDIAcuBLASlibraryisaGPU-acceleratedimplementationofthestandardBLAS.UsingcuBLASAPIscanspeedupapplicationsbydeployingcompute-intensiveoperationstoasingleGPUorscaleupanddistributeworkacrossmulti-GPUconfigurationsefficiently.

NVIDIAcuDNNisaGPU-acceleratedlibraryofprimitivesfordeepneuralnetworks.cuDNNprovideshighlytunedimplementationsforstandardroutinessuchasforwardandbackwardconvolution,pooling,normalizationandactivationlayers.

NVIDIANCCLimplementsmulti-GPUandmulti-nodecollectivecommunicationprimitivesthatareperformanceoptimizedforNVIDIAGPUs.NCCLprovidesroutinesthatareoptimizedtoachievehighbandwidthoverPCIeandNVLinkhigh-speedinterconnect.

TensorFlowisasoftwarelibraryfornumericalcomputationusingdataflowgraphs,developedbyGoogle’sMachineIntelligenceresearchorganization.

WhyDellEMC?

ThecombinationofDellandEMCbringstogethertwoindustry-leadingcompanieswithstrongreputationsforvalueandinnovation.DellEMCholdsleadershippositionsinsomeofthebiggestandlargest-growthcategoriesintheITinfrastructurebusiness,andthatmeansyoucanconfidentlysourceyourITneedsfromoneprovider—DellEMC.

#1inHPCserverunits5

#1inbothnumberandsizeofXSEDEHPCsystemsforU.S.openscience6

#1fastestsupercomputerontheAfricancontinent7

#1convergedinfrastructure8

#1intraditionalandall-flashstorage9

#1cloudITinfrastructure10

#1indataprotection11

#1insoftware-definedstoragedevelopedbyGoogle’sMachineIntelligenceresearchorganization12

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“We’reveryexcitedtopushtheboundariesof[machinelearning,devicesimulationandautonomoussystems].TheseresearchersreallyneedthekindofsupercomputingwecanprovidewiththenewDellEMCsystemwiththerevolutionary

IntelKnightsLandingprocessor.Eachprocessorcandothousandsofoperationsatonce,whilealsobeingconnectedtogetherwithanincrediblypowerfulnetwork.”

—JeremyKepner,LaboratoryFellowandheadofMIT’sLincolnLaboratory