Dell PowerScale brings massive AI performance
Organizations are racing to adopt AI technologies that can transform their operations, enhance decision-making and unlock new possibilities. Dell Technologies recognizes this critical requirement and provides customers with the purpose-built infrastructure they need to meet specific demands of AI.
In the realm of generative AI (GenAI), data serves as the fuel, compute functions as the engine and storage acts as the fuel tank that enables the entire process. Therefore, getting your storage strategy right is the essential first step to implementing a viable GenAI solution.
Dell PowerScale—the world’s most flexible, efficient and secure scale-out NAS—is no stranger to AI-optimized infrastructure, offering features such as GPUDirect support with NVIDIA (being one of the first storage vendors to do so), low latency storage access with NFSoRDMA and multi-tenant capabilities, simultaneous multi-protocol support, as well as 6x9s availability and resiliency to ensure uninterrupted uptime during model inferencing.
Building on that foundation, earlier this year, we launched the next-generation PowerScale all-flash nodes purpose-built for AI—the PowerScale F210 and the PowerScale F710. And today at Dell Technologies World, as part of the Dell AI Factory infrastructure offers, we announced the latest addition to our next-gen lineup, the PowerScale F910.
PowerScale F910 – Massive AI Performance with the Ultimate Density
PowerScale is the world’s first ethernet-based NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD certified storage vendor, and we’re taking AI-optimized storage to the next level with the introduction of the F910. John Lochausen, Technical Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology (WWT), a Beta user for the F910 says: “PowerScale F910 supercharges an already great platform. As our customers delve into the world of AI, they’re looking for a single platform that can handle whatever they throw at it. The immense performance gains in the F910 handle things from AI to general purpose workloads with ease.”
AI-ready performance. Leveraging continuous innovation of the OneFS software and the latest technology (i.e., Intel Xeon CPUs, the latest DRAM, Gen 5 PCIe), the F910 delivers faster time to AI insights with up to 127% improved streaming performance. It accelerates the model checkpointing and training phases of the AI pipeline and keeps GPUs utilized with up to 300 PBs of storage per cluster. PowerScale also recently introduced greater flexibility and option to access data in the cloud with the launch of Dell APEX File Storage for Azure, delivering 6x greater cluster performance compared to Azure NetApp Files.
Enhanced storage efficiency. Efficiency matters, both in terms of performance and costs for enterprise customers. The F910 strikes a balance by packing performance and density into a 2U node to minimize data center footprint and manage AI data growth with sustainability top of mind, offering 20% more density per RU compared to the earlier released F710. The F910 further controls storage costs and optimizes storage utilization by delivering up to 2x performance per watt over the previous generation and leveraging the world’s best scale-out NAS data reduction guarantee that PowerScale offers, to effectively enable customers to do more with less.
