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Dell PowerEdge XE7740

An air-cooled 4U dual-socket PCIe accelerator server built for AI fine-tuning, inferencing and HPC, packing up to 16 single-wide 75 W or 8 double-wide 600 W PCIe accelerators (NVIDIA H200 NVL, Intel Gaudi 3 and similar) behind dual Intel Xeon 6 processors.

Memory

Slots
32 DDR5 DIMM slots (16 per socket, 8 channels per socket)
Max
4 TB (32 × 128 GB RDIMM); 3 TB currently, per Dell's spec sheet, pending 128 GB DIMM qualification
Speed
Up to 6400 MT/s at 1 DIMM/channel, 5200 MT/s at 2 DIMMs/channel
Type
Registered ECC DDR5 (RDIMM) only; unbuffered DIMMs not supported

Storage

Front bays
Up to 8 × EDSFF E3.S Gen5 NVMe SSD, max 122.88 TB
Boot
BOSS-N1 DC-MHS: HW RAID 1, 2 × M.2 NVMe SSDs

Graphics

Accelerator options
8 × PCIe Gen5 x16 double-wide FHFL, up to 600 W each (e.g. NVIDIA H200 NVL) or 16 × PCIe Gen5 x16 single-wide FHFL, up to 75 W each (e.g. Intel Gaudi 3)

Expansion

PCIe (rear)
Up to 8 × PCIe Gen5 x16 SW-FHHL slots, each up to 150 W
OCP
1 × OCP NIC 3.0 slot (PCIe Gen5 x8), optional

Networking

OCP
1 × OCP 3.0-compatible NIC (x8 PCIe Gen5 lanes)

Power

Supplies
3200 W Titanium (220.1–240 V AC = 3200 W, 200–220 V AC = 2900 W; or 240 V DC; or 277 V AC / 336 V DC) or 2400 W Titanium (200–240 V AC = 2400 W, 100–120 V AC = 1400 W), hot-swap redundant
Zones
Separate CPU-zone and GPU-zone PSU groups; at least one PSU must be powered in each zone for standby power
Cooling
Air-cooled; up to 4 dual-fan high-performance modules in the mid tray plus up to 12 high-performance fans on the front of the system, all hot-swap

Ports

Front
1 × USB 2.0 Type-A (optional), 1 × Mini-DisplayPort (optional), 1 × USB 2.0 Type-C dual-mode (host/iDRAC Direct)
Rear
1 × dedicated iDRAC/BMC Ethernet port, 2 × USB 3.1 Type-A, 1 × VGA
Internal
1 × USB 3.1 Type-A

Physical

Dimensions (H×W×D)
174.3 mm × 482 mm × 899.56 mm with bezel (886.73 mm without bezel)
Weight
Max 71.35 kg (157.30 lb)
Bezel
Optional security bezel

Management

Embedded
iDRAC10, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, iDRAC Service Module, RACADM CLI
Consoles
OpenManage Enterprise, OME Power Manager, OME Services, OME Update Manager, OME APEX AIOps Observability, OME Integration for VMware vCenter
Security
Chassis intrusion detection, cryptographically signed firmware, Data at Rest Encryption (SED, local/external key mgmt), Secure Boot, Secured Component Verification, Secure Erase, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (iDRAC10 Enterprise/Datacenter), TPM 2.0 FIPS/CC-TCG certified

Operating systems

Supported
Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi

Processors

  • Intel Xeon 6787P
  • Intel Xeon 6767P
  • Intel Xeon 6747P