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Dell HPC and AI work spawns deployment-easing Omnia software
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Dell Technologies Inc. is pitching a new open-source software suite it created in partnership with Intel Corp. and Arizona State University as a way for customers to manage the convergence of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics workloads more easily.
The Omnia software stack announced today is meant to automate the provisioning and management of HPC, AI and data analytics by creating a single pool of flexible data center infrastructure resources that can sustain diverse workloads.
Available now, Omnia is essentially a set of Ansible playbooks, or blueprints of automation tasks that can be performed by software without human intervention. The playbooks can be used to speed up the deployment of converged workloads managed by Kubernetes and Slurm, as well as library frameworks, services and applications, Dell said. Kubernetes is orchestration software for containers that host the components of modern applications, while Slurm is an open-source