Dell IT Innovation Labs in the Cloud “The power to do more!” Andrew Underwood – Manager, HPC & Research Computing APJ Solutions Engineering Team

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3 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Leadership that benefits every customer Making powerful technology more accessible and affordable Search 4 of 5 top search engines worldwide powered by Dell Data center #1 provider of virtualized data center infrastructure Social 3 of 4 top social media websites are powered by Dell Cloud #1 provider of cloud infrastructure— over 1M servers shipped Software 90% of Fortune 1000 companies use Dell software Servers #1 Storage #1 Support #1 in enterprise services support

4 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Make HPC available to all who need it Empowering productivity Maximizing efficiency Collaboration Our mission is to take every HPC job seriously, regardless of scale, size or budget. Dell’s approach to high-performance computing “We put tools in the hands of people who are going to solve the world’s biggest problems.” Michael Dell

5 Confidential HPC & Research Computing $27.5M funded by US National Science Foundation Built in partnership with Dell and Intel ~9-10 PetaFLOPS peak (20% CPU, 80% co-processor) 6,400 Intel Sandy Bridge Nodes272 TB RAM Intel Xeon Phil (MIC) co- processors 56 Gigabit FDR Infiniband 14 PetaBytes of storage with 150 GBps Lustre file system > 5 Mwatts Power> 1 million threads 5

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7 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Our mission is to take every HPC job seriously, regardless of scale, size or budget. Dell Powers China’s first lunar soft-landing ‘Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences implements a HPCC platform to support China’s Chang’e-3 lunar expedition’

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9 Confidential HPC & Research Computing OpenStack Is Leading the Way for Innovation! OpenStack velocity is GOOD! OpenStack ecosystem is GOOD! OpenStack visibility is GOOD! Enterprise adoption = #Building

10 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Dell Innovation Lab Central Lab, IT Innovation projects Cloud enabled self-service Access to Corporate & Lab networks Active Directory Integration Built in partnership with Dell Security Dell IT Mandate: “Incubate on Steroids” RHEL OpenStack Platform is the response

11 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Dell, Intel & Red Hat Making OpenStack the de facto open cloud solution for the enterprise

12 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Dell sees real business impact from OpenStack User Experience Accelerating the introduction of user experience improvements Perception of IT as more user focused and responsive More time spent on project work and less time on “admini-strivia” Lab infrastructure utilization rates improved IT Staff Productivity Faster ramp-up time for new incubations Scope and breath of supported projects has been expanded Pace of innovation

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14 Confidential HPC & Research Computing Dell is different Driving out unnecessary cost and complexity Modern portfolioNo vested interest in legacy systems End-to-end solutionsNo siloed viewpoint or hidden agenda Flexible scalingNo forced constraints or rip-and-replace Modular systems No costly monolithic stacks Open approachNo intentionally closed ecosystems Standards-basedNo deliberate technology lock in

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