Dell Expands AI Capabilities with NVIDIA: New Servers, Edge Solutions
Dell Technologies has bolstered its AI Factory in a strategic partnership with Nvidia. This collaboration has led to the integration of new advancements in server, edge, workstation, services, and solutions, accelerating enterprises’ adoption of Artificial Intelligence.
The AI factor also integrates Dell’s AI Portfolio with the NVidia AI enterprise software platform, supported by Nvidia’s Tensor Core GPUs, spectrum-X Ethernet networking fabric, and Bluefield DPUs.
Data centers must be developed and designed from the ground up to handle AI’s speed and scale while new AI PCs are transforming collaboration and productivity,” said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Dell Technologies.
“What’s needed is new IT infrastructure and devices purpose-built to meet specific demands of AI. The Dell AI factors help customers accelerate AI adoption with the world’s broadest AI portfolio and leading AI ecosystem partners, offering right-sized approaches and greater control over AI deployments on-premises and across cloud environments.
Dell’s end-to-end AI portfolio, spanning client devices, storage, data protection, and networks, forms the foundation of the Dell AI factory. Dell Technologies also enhances that portfolio with purpose-built new offers to meet rising AI demands.
Furthermore, Dell launched most Copilot+PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X plus processors, two featuring a new Microsoft AI experience. These laptops target professionals and clients and incorporate built-in AI with game-changing performance and exceptional battery life. Also, this transformative AI PC experience will help users smoothly manage their tasks and workflows through local processing and computing across the CPU, GPU, and NPU.
Advancements to manage and protect the data that fuels AI innovation
Dell Power Scale F910: all-flash file storage addresses the requirements of demanding AI workload, delivering faster time to AI insights with up to 127% improvements 3 in performance and superior density.
PowerScale: Project lighting is a new, highly performant parallel file system software architecture that will be integrated into PowerScale to accelerate training times for large-scale and Complex AI workflows.
Dell Solution for AI Data Protection helps clients protect Critical AI applications and data with Dell Data protection software, appliances, and a reference design that streamlines deployment.
The expanded network portfolio also delivers the fabric that accelerates AI performance.
Dell PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON, powered by the Broadcom Tomahawk chipset, doubles the network performance of AI applications 4 through a modern network architecture that delivers high throughput, delay latency, and easy scalability, catering to the most demanding networking environments.
Also, Dell Power XE9680 supports Broadcom 400G PCle Gen 5.0 ethernet adapters. Also, the combination of PowerEdge hardware, PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON, and 400G PCle Gen 5.0
Ethernet adapters enable organizations to achieve excellent performance, scalability, and efficiency by building robust ethernet fabrics.
Enterprise SONiC Distribution innovations expand AI performance, while SmartFabric Manager for SONiC software simplifies deployment, orchestration, and lifecycle management with a single view of SONiC fabrics.
The new Dell Generative AI solutions for Digital Assistance enable speed deployment of digital assistance that delivers a customized self-service experience for end users on a whole stack of Dell and NVIDIA solutions. Implementation services for Digital Assistants help organizations.
The new Dell Generative AI Solution for Digital Assistants helps speed up the deployment of digital assistants that deliver a personalized self-service experience for end users on full-stack Dell and NVIDIA solutions. Implementation Services for Digital Assistants help organizations design, plan, implement, test, and scale the solution.
Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions helps organizations quickly set up AI environments for various use cases with full-stack deployment automation engineered in collaboration with NVIDIA. Full-stack automation reduces the time to value by up to 86% compared to doing it yourself.
Combined with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, the overall time from delivery to running inferencing jobs is further reduced. NIM microservices provide enterprise developers with production-ready, optimized inference engines for popular AI models available from NVIDIA and its partner ecosystem.
New Dell Accelerator Services for RAG on Precision AI Workstations help shorten the AI development cycle and quickly yield better performing AI applications through a tailored large language model using RAG on a Dell Precision workstation with NVIDIA AI Workbench, a development platform to experiment, test, and prototype AI and ML projects in a more secure environment.
“Our research shows that organizations seek IT simplification but are challenged to achieve it. AI, while promising simplification, brings its complexities including choice, data quality, consistency and security. Having a proven, one-stop shop to help stand up the infrastructure, software, and services needed to realize value from AI can reduce risk and lower costs,” said Dave Vellante, chief analyst of CUBE Research. “Dell’s end-to-end capabilities are a core differentiator that we believe will translate to AI. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is a leading example of an AI solution designed to simplify adoption for emerging AI workloads.”
