Queens University & Dell Partner

Queens Accelerating Research With  Dell High Performance Computing Clusters

Queen's University Belfast has selected Dell to provide it with a new high performance computing infrastructure, after it received funding  of around £500,000 from the  UK Department of Education and Learning to improve the computational infrastructure used by its academic research community.

The University has also established a five year Strategic Partnership with  Dell to help it develop, enhance and maximise the use of its new high performance infrastructure and best exploit services available from it.

Queen's University Director of Research for High Performance and Distributed Computing, Professor Stan Scott commented: "Dell is helping Queen's University maximise processing power for our IT budget, with a solution that will provide greater performance and scaling, enhanced analysis capabilities, better value and simplified management."

Dell has provided Queens with a High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) with over 100 compute nodes, high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects and a high-performance HPCC-tuned disk subsystem with a simplified management interface.

Queens' strategic partnership with Dell  is focused on  helping  all of  its research groups  to best exploit the infrastructure available to them.

Queens is a member of the Russell Group of the 20 leading research-intensive universities in the UK and  it has an international reputation for teaching and research, with approximately 12,000 full-time and 6,000 part-time undergraduates based there.

A key objective highlighted by Queen's in its tender document was to help  the University's to improve its research ratings and continue to develop its reputation and standing as a University, by keeping it at the forefront of research and research-led education in the UK and internationally.

To assist Queen's University in achieving this goal, Dell focused on providing a balanced design, utilising new technology where appropriate that would be of value to Queen's University and ensuring balance between each of the elements that contribute to the overall compute performance.

Dell  also designed the system to provide flexibility, ease of use, and simple expandability as new funds become available.

Paul Delaney, Head of Dell Northern Ireland said: "Dell is delighted to be able to assist Queens with this important project and engagement over the next five years.

"Dell is keen to bring the latest in next generation compute technology to Queens, to ensure they are at the forefront of research."

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