Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI

2018: The ready-made solutions Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI with Hadoop and Nvidia technologies

On August 31, 2018 the Dell EMC company announced availability of the ready-made solutions Ready Solutions for AI with Hadoop technologies for machine learning and NVIDIA for deep training. The ready-made solutions Ready Solutions from Dell EMC simplify Wednesdays of the artificial intelligence (AI) and help to obtain deeper analytical information quicker.

"The complex offers announced by us will allow the organizations of any scale to see improvement of results of the activity and to be prepared for the future of artificial intelligence technology which importance increases". Tom Burns, senior vice president of division of Networking & Solutions, Dell EMC

The artificial intelligence purchases an important strategic importance for most the organizations. However deployment and management of AI Wednesdays has difficult character. This expensive action requiring broad integration and testing hardware and the software, was explained in Dell EMC.

According to the statement of the developer, the ready-made solutions Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI aim to ask AI, to reduce time for obtaining analytical information and to make it more informative. The organizations do not need to collect solutions of different suppliers independently any more. Instead they can use a set of in advance selected and prepared Dell EMC technologies: the software — including IT frameworks and libraries — servers, storage systems and network components. In turn, the range of services of Dell EMC — from consultation before deployment, support and training — helps customers to implement quicker AI and to optimize AI Wednesdays.

As noted in Dell EMC, the ready-made solutions Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI were created to help the organizations:

• Simplify AI
  • Increase in efficiency of data analysis at most for 30% and reduction of time before start for 6-12 months in comparison with independent implementation
  • Dell EMC Data Science Provisioning Portal offers the intuitive graphical user interface using which it is possible to get independently access to hardware resources, a broad set of AI libraries and frameworks, such as Caffe and TensorFlow — configuring of a workplace of the specialist in data processing is reduced to 5 clicks

• To receive more informative insights quicker
  • Ready Solutions for AI with the distributed, easily scalable architecture gives a maximum twice higher performance
  • the Enhanced accuracy of model with quick access to data bulks thanks to the Dell EMC Isilon All-Flash systems with horizontal scaling; at most in 21 times more tanks and a maximum by 18 times higher capacity within a cluster

• Provide access to knowledge and experience
  • Elimination of misunderstanding between data processing specialists, IT department and divisions of the organization thanks to efforts of the Dell EMC Consulting command
  • an Opportunity to construct more optimal system thanks to participation of experts of divisions of Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab.

Ready Solutions for AI: deep training with NVIDIA

Dell EMC and NVIDIA companies released a complex based on the Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and graphic NVIDIA Tesla V100 Tensor Core accelerators. Key characteristics:

• The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd and C4140 servers with four graphic NVIDIA Tesla V100SXM2 Tensor Core accelerators. Thanks to 640 cores of Tensor the Tesla V100 accelerator overcame performance mark of 100 TFLOPS at accomplishment of the calculations connected with deep training
• The Dell EMC Isilon F800 All-Flash NAS storage with horizontal scaling based on a flash memory allows to process data bulks at the same time for achievement of faster results
• Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science in combination with Dell EMC Data Science Provisioning Portal allows to carry out primary setup of a cluster, to select resources, to observe and manage.

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI: machine learning with Hadoop

The solution Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI for machine learning with Hadoop is constructed on the solutions Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Hadoop developed in partnership with Cloudera and Intel. This complex includes the optimized solution stack, the optimized technologies of data analysis, the optimized framework. All this allows to expedite installation and start and to expand the existing Hadoop environments for machine learning, consider in Dell EMC. Key characteristics:

• Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 and R740xd servers
• Cloudera Data Science Workbench — for fast, simple and reliable data analysis at the enterprises
• Apache Spark is the open and universal engine for data analysis intended for Big Data and machine learning
• Dell EMC Data Science Provisioning Engine — offers in advance configured containers allowing data processing specialists to get access to the distributed library of deep training of Intel BigDL at Spark framework.

Services of Dell EMC for artificial intelligence

According to information provided by the developer, services of Dell EMC Consulting help clients to implement and operate technologies and Ready Solution AI libraries and also to expand opportunities for work with data and their analysis. These services are intended to reduce a payback period by means of accurate strategic planning, knowledge deployment and experience of experts and training. Representatives of Dell EMC also share recommendations concerning architecture, point to optimal methods of problem solving and the most suitable of available tools.

After implementation experts of ProSupport begin to give a full support concerning operation hardware and the software, helping customers to reach the maximum system capacity and to minimize idle times. Depending on requirements customers can select support of ProSupport Plus under the terms of which it selects the personal manager of Technology Service Manager. This person serves as the uniform contact person for the solution of all questions connected as with hardware, and the software. Within Dell EMC Education Services the company also offers training and certification on the Data Science and Advanced Analytics directions and also seminars, joint with NVIDIA, in the Machine Learning direction.

"Dell EMC and Cloudera integrated the Cloudera Data Science Workbench platform into complex offers of Ready Solutions for AI. It allowed clients of Dell EMC to use Cloudera Data Science Workbench for acceleration of machine learning with a possibility of independent creation, scaling and deployment of solutions on the reliable platform of corporate data. It means that the IT organizations can apply technologies of data processing to the data that data processing specialists can get access, interact and manage data exactly as it is convenient to them and as it is convenient to the enterprise at which they work. Such approach allows to put more simply and quicker products on the market". Hilary Mason, CEO of Machine Learning, Cloudera

"The organizations spend precious time for assembly, configuring, testing and debugging of environments of machine learning. They do it by the price of that information which could be already received. Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI with a cluster of Bright Cluster for Data Science does idle time a problem of start of environments of machine learning. The solution is capable to be scaled automatically in process of growth of requirements of the organization for machine learning". Bill Wagner, chief executive of Bright Computing