When Nvidia announced its Blackwell B200-series processors earlier this spring, the company also introduced its servers based on GPUs. While Nvidia confirmed that traditional server makers such as Dell, HPE, and Lenovo will also offer Blackwell-based machines, there weren't many details at the time. That changes with today's announcement from Dell.
Nvidia and Dell wrapped up the Dell PowerEdge XE9680L server with liquid cooling and eight Nvidia Blackwell Tensor Core GPUs. Liquid cooling means that the PowerEdge XE9680L server will be aimed at applications that require the highest possible performance, so we expect the machine to use a B200 GPU and cost a lot more. Will be.
It's worth noting that Dell already has a PowerEdge XE9680 machine based on Intel's 4th generation Xeon Scalable CPUs, with support for Nvidia's H100 processors and AMD's Instinct MI300X accelerator. The L version will likely use the same basic design, only it will be able to support Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC workloads, which likely means the system will need more powerful PSUs. And have to upgrade with better cooling.
Interestingly, Dell and Nvidia tout the Dell PowerEdge XE9680L server as 'one of the industry's densest, most energy-efficient rack-scale solutions for large Blackwell GPU deployments'. So, we're really talking about a very powerful solution for large-scale AI deployments.
Speaking of large-scale AI deployments, so-called AI factories are certainly among them. Dell AI Factory, introduced earlier this year in partnership with Nvidia, provides comprehensive AI solutions spanning data centers to edge environments, enabling organizations to rapidly and scale AI. Adoption is facilitated. The platform combines Dell's hardware expertise with Nvidia's software technologies, offering customers a broad AI portfolio and an open ecosystem of technology partners.
“We're unleashing the power of this tremendous talent. Everyone will have access to this technology — and it's going to get smarter,” said Michael Dell, Dell's chief executive.
Leveraging this collaboration with Nvidia, the Dell AI Factory aims to establish AI autonomy for companies and countries, ensure strong data security and enable the development of tailored AI services.
“Our partnership between us is really about that, literally building AI factories and bringing that to the world's enterprises as a solution,” said Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia.