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