Dell AI Factory Expands with NVIDIA

Dell Technologies expands the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA to include new server, edge, workstation, solutions and services advancements that speed artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and innovation.

“Organizations are moving quickly to capture the AI opportunity, which is why our collaboration with NVIDIA is so important,” says Michael Dell, founder and CEO, Dell Technologies. “Our expansion of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA continues our joint mission—we’re making it easy for organizations to implement AI so they can move boldly into this next technological revolution.”

“Generative AI requires a new type of computing infrastructure—an AI factory that produces intelligence,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “Together, NVIDIA and Dell are providing the world’s industries with a full-stack offering—including computing, networking and software—that drives the copilots, coding assistants, virtual customer service agents and industrial digital twins of the digital enterprise.”

Transforming Data Into Insights

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA integrates Dell’s AI portfolio with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, underpinned by NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking fabric and NVIDIA Bluefield DPUs. Customers can purchase integrated capabilities tailored to their needs or prevalidated, full stack solutions to get them started on AI use cases that require accelerated performance like RAG, model training and inferencing. Advancements to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA allow organizations to:

Use advanced compute power

• The new Dell PowerEdge XE9680L delivers performance with support for eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a smaller 4U form factor. The server provides rack-scale density for NVIDIA GPUs in an industry standard x86 rack. 
• Direct liquid cooling (DLC) improves overall efficiency with greater cooling capacity for CPUs and GPUs. The PowerEdge XE9680L is designed for easy serviceability and will be available fully configured with advanced factory integration for rack-scale deployments and onsite installation.
• Dell is also announcing density and highly energy efficient turnkey rack-scale solutions that speed time to value for large GPU-accelerated deployments. Multiple variants will be available including an air-cooled design supporting 64 GPUs in a single rack, or a liquid cooled format featuring 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a single rack.

Accelerate edge AI application deployment 

Dell NativeEdge automates the delivery of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. Businesses can analyze their edge data with new Dell NativeEdge deployment blueprints, which include NVIDIA Metropolis video analytics, NVIDIA Riva speech and translation capabilities and NVIDIA NIM inference microservices.

Simplify AI application development

• The Dell Generative AI Solution for Digital Assistants helps speed deployment of digital assistants that deliver a personalized self-service experience for end users on a full-stack Dell and NVIDIA solution. 
• Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions help organizations quickly stand up AI environments for use cases with full stack deployment automation engineered in collaboration with NVIDIA. NIM microservices provide enterprise developers 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.

Availability

• Dell PowerEdge XE9680L servers will be available in the second half of 2024.
• Dell NativeEdge deployment blueprints for NVIDIA will be available globally starting in the second half of 2024.
• Dell Generative AI Solution for Digital Assistants and Implementation Services for Digital Assistants are available now in North America.
• Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA automated deployment capabilities enabled through Dell professional services will be available in the second half of 2024. NVIDIA NIM microservices are available today.
• Dell Accelerator Services for RAG on Precision AI Workstations are available in late May in the United States.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.