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Paving the Road to ExascaleJune 2018

Interconnect Your Future

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The Need for Intelligent and Faster Interconnect

CPU-Centric (Onload) Data-Centric (Offload)

Must Wait for the DataCreates Performance Bottlenecks

Faster Data Speeds and In-Network Computing Enable Higher Performance and Scale

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Analyze Data as it Moves!Higher Performance and Scale

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In-Network Computing to Enable Data-Centric Data Centers

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GPUDirect

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SHARP AllReduce Performance Advantages 1500 Nodes, 60K MPI Ranks, Dragonfly+ Topology

SHARP Enables Highest Performance

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Performs the Gradient AveragingReplaces all physical parameter serversAccelerate AI Performance

SHARP Accelerates AI Performance

The CPU in a parameter server becomes the bottleneck

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Supporting Variety of Topologies

Torus DragonflyFat Tree Hypercube

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Traditional Dragonfly vs Dragonfly+

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Dell EMC – Mellanox Deliver Leading HPC/AI Systems

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Dell EMC - Mellanox HPC Ready Solutions

Research Quickly adopt HPC solutions that match the unique needs of a wide variety of workloads involving complex scientific

analysis http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-computing/b/general_hpc/archive/2016/11/11/deep-

learning-performance-with-p100-gpus

Life sciences Accelerate time-to-insight for a range of applications, including drug design, cancer research, agriculture, forensics,

genomics and bioinformatics http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/blueprints/blueprint_for_hpc/m/mediagallery/20441607/download

Digital manufacturing Optimize the performance of your software licenses with HPC solutions designed specifically for computer-aided

engineering (CAE) http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/blueprints/blueprint_for_hpc/m/mediagallery/20442894/download

High-performance data analytics (HPDA) Explore the possibilities of machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) with benchmarked and optimized

HPDA configurations https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/solutions/data-analytics/machine-learning/index.htm#overlay=/collateral/solution-

overview/ready-solns-for-ai-machinedeep-learning-sol-overview.pdf

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