Coming In First with Dell

“Power efficiency was one of the key determining factors for selecting the Dell blade solution. We noticed that the power requirements of the Dell blades are lower than other comparable systems.”

- Adrian Ling, manager, infrastructure and major I.T. projects, Monash University, Australia

Monash University needed to construct a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support its biomedical research efforts. The cluster needed to be easily expandable, and CPU power per dollar spent was a major consideration.

The IT group within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University assembled a cluster using Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  blade servers, Dell PowerVault^TM  storage and Red Hat^®  Enterprise Linux, reinforcing Monash’s position as one of the premiere biomedical research facilities in the world.

• Run IT Better: Able to add a new server node in minutes, with no downtime; able to support 400% more research projects; research completed in a week vs. months
• Grow IT Smarter: Favorable price per flops compared to competition; lower power requirements than competitive blade offerings; easy expandability of both cluster and storage