Dell Expanding HPC-On-Demand And Server GPU Options, Debuting Omnia Software at ISC21
Summary
Both announcements were made June 30 (Wednesday) at the ISC (International Supercomputing) High Performance conference, which is traditionally held in Europe as an international event and exhibition for high performance computing (HPC), networking and storage. “Omnia is an open source set of Ansible playbooks developed by Dell Technologies, our HPC and AI innovation team, in partnership with contributions from Intel and the HPC community," Caitlin Gordon, vice president of product management for Dell, said in a media pre-briefing. "It’s all about simplifying and easing the deployment and the management of high performance clusters [but] not just for HPC, but also for AI and data analytics workloads.” Omnia is designed to "put the right software on each server based on your use case whether it’s HPC simulations [or] neural networks for AI and reduce your time to time deployments," said Gordon. "One of the coolest things about Omnia is that you can compose and recompose the stack based on what you need, really taking an infrastructure as code approach here.” Dell also introduced an expanded “pay-as-you-go” HPC on demand offering for hybrid clouds that’s s now available for VMware users. The Nvidia A10 GPUs can support mixed AI and graphics workloads on a common infrastructure, imaking them useful for deep learning inference and computer-aided design.