Case Study: King's College London accelerates discovery with Dell Technologies' HPC and private cloud

Accelerating discovery at King’s College London

King's College London needed to equip its research community with leading-edge high-performance computing and scalable data storage to support compute- and data-intensive scientific investigations. To meet that challenge the university worked with Dell Technologies (with Alces Flight delivering and managing the system) to deploy Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerSwitch networking, Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Storage, Red Hat® Ceph storage and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Dell Technologies supplied the core hardware for the Rosalind Research Computing Infrastructure — a hybrid HPC cluster and private cloud that includes more than 100 Intel Xeon compute nodes, fast Lustre scratch storage and a large, resilient Ceph archive under OpenStack. The Dell Technologies–based solution accelerated research in healthcare and other fields, enabled compute- and data-intensive applications on a single flexible platform, and provided easy access to HPC/AI via a private cloud, supporting a wide range of projects and improving researcher productivity.

King's College London

Richard A. Christie

Head of Research Solutions