Solution overview

Omnia open-source software

Run AI, HPC and data analytics on the same systems, with greater flexibility.

Table of Contents
Build and manage complex environments, and run them anywhere. . . . . 2
Dell Technologies has what you need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Omnia use cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Why Omnia?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Deploy faster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Flex with demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Get instant gratification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Customer success stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Technical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Omnia software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Support matrix: Software and hardware requirements . . . . . . . . 6

Services and financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Why choose Dell Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Customer Solution Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
AI Experience Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
HPC & AI Innovation Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
HPC & AI Centers of Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Proven results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Take the next step, today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Solution overview
Build and manage complex AI, HPC and data analytics
environments, and run them anywhere.
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) and data
analytics is being driven by a proliferation of advanced computing workflows that combine
different techniques to solve complex problems. For example, AI and data analytics can augment
traditional HPC workloads to speed scientific discovery and innovation. At the same time, data
scientists and researchers are developing new processes for solving problems at massive scale
that require HPC systems.

While this convergence is accelerating discovery and innovation, it’s also putting pressure on
IT to support ever more complex environments. IT teams are being asked to complete
manual configurations and reconfigurations of servers, storage and networking as they move
nodes between clusters to provide the resources required for shifting workload demands.

The Omnia software stack helps speed and simplify the process of deploying and managing
environments for mixed workloads. It abstracts away the manual steps that can slow provisioning
and lead to configuration errors, automating the deployment of Slurm® and/or Kubernetes®
workload management software along with libraries, frameworks, operators, services, platforms
and applications.

For advanced computing applications such as simulation, high‑throughput computing (HTC),

machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), and data analytics, Omnia gives IT the flexibility to
run these workloads in the same environment, with a single interface for cluster provisioning and
deployment, with easy‑to‑use point‑and‑click templates.

With Omnia, you can compose a unified architecture with multi‑purpose, balanced nodes to
support multiple workloads, and quickly re‑compose resources to meet demands both now and
in the future. Omnia is an open source community project started in the Dell Technologies HPC
& AI Innovation Lab and you're invited to download and participate on GitHub.
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Dell Technologies has what you need.
Expertise and guidance
Technology is evolving quickly, so your team may not have time to design, deploy and manage
solution stacks optimized for multiple workloads. While advanced AI, HPC and data analytics
computing might seem like the latest IT trend, Dell Technologies has been a leader in the
advanced computing space for over a decade, with proven products, solutions and expertise. Dell
Technologies has a team of AI, HPC and data analytics experts dedicated to staying on the cutting
edge, testing new technologies and tuning solutions to your applications to help you keep pace
with this constantly evolving landscape.

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Validated Designs are workload‑optimized rack‑level systems with servers, software,
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engineering‑tested solution while saving valuable time and resources.

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• Validated Designs for Analytics speed time to insight with architectures, integrated systems and
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• Validated Designs for HPC Storage make it easier to unlock the value of your data with scalable
solutions for NFS, PixStor™ and/or BeeGFS® storage.

Solutions customized for your environment

Dell Technologies uniquely provides an extensive portfolio of technologies to deliver the
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universe of data.

Omnia use cases

Omnia lends itself to a number of use cases, including:
• AI clusters for training of large‑scale generative models such as LLM or image generation
• AI inferencing for serving end user access of multiple instances of pre-trained models
• HPC clusters for tightly‑coupled and loosely‑coupled parallel computation
• General-purpose accelerated server clusters with RDMA‑enabled fabrics
• High performance data analytics (HPDA) clusters for large‑scale distributed data analysis
• Multi‑user HPC/AI/HPDA systems
• Virtualized HPC/AI/HPDA clusters
• Hybrid HPC/AI/HPDA clusters
• Edge deployments for AI inference.
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Why Omnia
Omnia is open‑source software for deploying and managing high performance clusters for HPC, AI,
and data analytics workloads. For Dell PowerEdge servers running RPM or DEB-based Linux© OS
images, Omnia installs Kubernetes and/or slurm for managing jobs and enables installation of
many other packages and services for running diverse workloads on the same converged solution.
Developers are continually extending Omnia to speed deployment of new infrastructure into
resource pools that can easily be allocated and re‑allocated to different workloads. Omnia can
make it faster and easier for IT to provide the right tools for the right job on the right
infrastructure at the right time.

Deploy faster.
When HPC teams are asked to run AI and data analytics jobs within the same infrastructure to
help save time and resources, reconfiguring can be a manual and time‑consuming process.
Omnia automates the deployment of high-performance clusters for AI, HPC, and data analytics
workloads to create a single pool of flexible resources. It imprints a software solution onto each
server based on the use case — for example, HPC simulations, neural networks for AI, or
in‑memory graph processing for data analytics — to reduce deployment time from weeks to
hours.

Flex with demand.

When provisioning and deployment are tied together in an image‑based architecture, teams can't
quickly pivot, or flex to meet specific workload needs while taking advantage of new and diverse
technologies. Simulation and modeling are compute‑intensive with jobs submitted by a batch
scheduler, taking hours or days to run. Data ingest requires very high bandwidth (GB/s)
performance at scale to sustain data rates. AI training requires high throughput (IO/s) and low
latency for continuous and repetitive computational analysis of the data.

Omnia can compose the solution stack to support a variety of workload demands for technologies
from multiple vendors with an infrastructure‑as‑code approach. It supports multiple user and
workload types as well, enabling you to compose and recompose resource pools. It uses
repeatable, simplified workflows that enable you to build, scale and manage complex
environments, based on component modules, profiles and roles, that can run anywhere.

Get instant gratification.

Workload‑specialized systems are often siloed with a diverse set of hardware and software
You don't need to
combinations accumulated over time. While it may have been the best option then, proprietary or
become an expert when closed software can limit choice of applications, developer platforms, desired libraries,
using Omnia. Omnia middleware, operators and back‑end services.
abstracts away the
manual steps that can Omnia is open source, so you can shape it to meet your needs in an instant and in the future. Dell
Technologies integrates the latest open-source tools and invites you to participate in the
lead to configuration
community. The collective power of a talented community working in concert not only delivers
mistakes. more ideas, but also speeds development and troubleshooting — all with support available from
Dell Technologies.

Customer success stories

Arizona State University: Accelerating scientific research with HPC
Flexible resources Advance science Simplified

Testing Omnia for cloud Dedicated to giving minutes Workload migration

environments back to science
Read more customer stories
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Technical specifications
Omnia software
Omnia is a collection of Ansible playbooks for automating OS provisioning, deployment of open
source Kubernetes and Slurm services; installation of hardware drivers, optimization libraries,
and machine learning frameworks/platforms; and serving pre-trained AI inferencing models
Telemetry and Cluster from the internet or running of research or commercial HPC applications Kubernetes. This is
Visualization accomplished by installing software from a variety of sources, including Standard Rocky® and
• Omnia fetches key performance ELRepo repositories, Helm® repositories, and Source code compilation. Omnia can be
indicators from iDRAC (power, downloaded from GitHub® at: https://github.com/dell/omnia
temperatures) and at the OS level
Support matrix: Software and hardware requirements
(CPU/GPU/RAM utilization) in the
cluster These options are continually expanding. Please check github for the latest information.
• Omnia also supports fetching health
and job data from Kubernetes Dell PowerEdge Intel Servers 14G C4140, C6420, R240, R340, R440, R540, R640,
managers and Slurm controllers R740, R740xd, R740xd2, R840, R940, R940xa
• The telemetry data is plotted on Dell PowerEdge Intel Servers 15G C6520, R650, R750, R750xa
Grafana to provide better Dell PowerEdge Intel Servers 16G R660, R760, R760xa, R760xd2, C6620,
XE8640, XE9640, XE9680
visualization capabilities.
Dell PowerEdge AMD Servers 14G R6415, R7415, R7425
• Four visualization plugins are
Dell PowerEdge AMD Servers 15G C6525, R6515, R6525, R7525, XE8545
supported to provide and analyze
Dell PowerEdge AMD Servers 16G R6625, R7625, R6615, R7615
iDRAC and Slurm data:
Nvidia Accelerators H100, A100, A10, T4
• Parallel Coordinate
AMD Accelerators Mi100, Mi200, Mi210, Mi300x
• Spiral
Operating system (Control Plane) RHEL 8.6, 8.7, 8.8 Full
• Sankey Rocky 8.6, 8.7, 8.8 Full
• Stream‑net (aka. Power Map) Ubuntu 20.04.6, 22.04.3 Server
Operating system deployed by Omnia on RHEL 8.6, 8.7, 8.8 Minimal
bare-metal servers Rocky 8.6, 8.7, 8.8 Minimal
Ubuntu 20.04.6, 22.04.3 Server
xCAT 2.16.5
Slurm Workload Manager 20.11.9
Kubernetes Controllers on Control Plane 1.26 to 1.29
Kubernetes Controllers on Manager and 1.26 to 1.29
Compute
vLLM v0.2.4 (AMD), latest (Nvidia)
KServe v0.11.2
Jupyterhub 4.0.2
Pytorch latest (AMD, CPU), 23.12-py3 (Nvidia)
TensorFlow latest (AMD, CPU), 23.12-tf2-py3 (Nvidia)
Kubeflow v1.8.0
Prometheus 2.32.1
Helm v3.2.0
Grafana 8.3.2
FreeIPA 4.6.8
OpenLDAP latest
Dell EMC PowerVault Storage PowerVault ME4084, ME4024, ME4012,
ME5012, ME5024, ME5084 Storage Arrays
Dell EMC PowerScale Storage PowerScale F600, H7000, H5600
Dell EMC Networking Switches PowerSwitch S3048-ON, S5232F-ON, S5232F-
ON, S4148T-ON
PowerSwitch N3248TE-ON
PowerSwitch Z9332F-ON, Z9264F-ON,
Z9264F-ON, Z9664F-ON
Nvidia InfiniBand Switches NVIDIA SB7890-* EDR Infiniband Switch
NVIDIA QM8700-* Quantum HDR InfiniBand
Switch
NVIDIA QM9700-* NDR Infiniband Switch
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Security • Malicious or unwanted network software access can be

• Omnia adheres to most requirements of NIST 800‑53 and NIST restricted by the administrator.
800‑171 guidelines on the control plane and login node. • Admins can restrict the idle time allowed in an SSH session.
• Omnia supports both FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, external LDAP • Security on audit log access is provided.
replication to provide authentication and authorization. • Program execution on the control plane and login node is
• Email alerts have been added in case of login failures. logged using snoopy tool.
• Administrator can restrict users or hosts from accessing the • User activity on the control plane and login node is
control plane and login node over SSH. monitored using psacct/account tools installed by Omnia.

“HPC systems deployment can be

difficult, and the addition of AI
and data analytics makes it even
more complicated. We created
Omnia to make it easier,
incorporating expertise from
Dell's HPC & AI Solutions
engineers, our HPC & AI Centers
of Excellence, and across the HPC
Community. And as the HPC
landscape changes, whether that
be on premises or in the cloud,
Omnia will continue to grow and
evolve to meet our customers’
and the Community’s needs.”

— John Lockman,
Technologist, HPC & AI

Virtual hardware Virtual hardware

Virtual hardware Virtual hardware

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