Dell EMC HPC Solution for Life Sciences v1.1 - Deployment Best Practices Owner's Manual

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Designed for life sciences researchers and IT professionals, this guide details Dell EMC’s pre-integrated High Performance Computing (HPC) solution. This powerful platform utilizes PowerEdge compute subsystems and advanced interconnects like Intel® Omni-Path or InfiniBand to deliver optimal performance for complex data analysis. The manual serves as a comprehensive deployment blueprint, covering best practices for component review, cluster installation, storage configuration, and network setup necessary for robust life science computing environments.

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DELL EMC HPC Solution for Life Sciences v1.1: Deployment Best Practices Power Edge C6320 compute subsystem with Intel® Omni-Path fabric Dell Engineering October 2016

A Dell EMC Deployment and Configuration Guide

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Page 1 DELL EMC HPC Solution for Life Sciences v1.1: Deployment Best Practices Power Edge C6320 compute subsystem with Intel® Omni-Path fabric Dell Engineering October 2016 A Dell EMC Deployment and Configur...

Page 2 Revisions Date Description October 2016 Initial release THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS...

Page 3 Table of contents Revisions................................................................................................................................................................................

Page 4 1 Introduction Dell HPC Solution for Life Sciences is a pre-integrated, tested, tuned and purpose-built platform, leveraging the most relevant of Dell’s High Performance Computing line of products and...

Page 5 2 Audience This deployment guide describes the Dell EMC HPC Solution for Life Sciences and its configuration on the Power Edge C6320 with Intel® Omni-Path interconnect. It assumes the reader is famili...

Page 6 3 Solution Overview The Dell HPC Solution for Life Sciences with Power Edge C6320 compute subsystem with Intel® OPA fabric consists of 24 nodes of Power Edge C6320 in one 48U rack. This solution also ...

Page 7 3.1 Component details 3.1.1 Master node The Power Edge R430 is the choice of master nodes, and high level component details are listed in Table 1. Table 1 Power Edge R430 configuration Component Infor...

Page 8 3.1.4 Common Internet File System (CIFS) gateway Table 3 Power Edge R430 configuration as CIFS gateway Component Information Power Edge R430 Processors 2x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors Memory 6 x 8...

Page 9 3.3 Network configuration This solution comprises of two network switches, Dell Networking S3048-ON and Dell Networking H1048- OPF switch, for management network and high-speed interconnects respectiv...

Page 10 4 Cluster installation 4.1 Installing the head node It is recommended that all the nodes are connected beforehand so that how things are connected is known. 1. The BIOS of the head node should have th...

Page 11 • The correct hardware manufacturer is selected Continue is then clicked. 10. At the Network Topology screen, the default network layout is chosen. Click continue 11. At the Additional Network Configu...

Page 12 19. At the Time Configuration screen, a time-zone should be selected, and optionally, NTP time-servers should be added. Continue should be clicked. 20. At the Cluster Access screen, accept the default...

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Frequently Asked Questions

What key components are included in the Dell HPC Solution for Life Sciences?

It is a pre-integrated platform encompassing hardware resources like Master, Login, Compute node, and CIFS gateway.

Which network interconnect options are available for this solution?

Options include 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), Intel® Omni-Path (OPA), InfiniBand® EDR, or InfiniBand® FDR.

What scheduling software is recommended for workload management?

Torque/Maui is the recommended scheduler for efficient job handling.

How should the head node disk volumes be configured during installation?

Two 500GB RAID 1 volumes on the head node should be selected, and master-standard.xml should be used as the layout template.