Dell PowerEdge XE8712
Dell's highest-density GPU sled: a 1 OU compute tray for the IR7000 (ORv3) rack-scale platform pairing two NVIDIA Grace CPUs with four NVIDIA GB200 Blackwell Ultra GPUs (GB200 NVL4) over coherent NVLink, direct liquid cooled, enabling up to 144 Blackwell GPUs per rack for AI training/inferencing and HPC.
Memory
- Type
- 480 GB LPDDR5X with ECC per CPU, 960 GB total, soldered
- Max
- 960 GB
Storage
- Front bays
- Up to 2 x EDSFF E3.S hot-swappable NVMe (not available at product launch)
- Controllers
- No HBA or PERC; direct NVMe only
- Boot
- 1 x M.2 boot drive via M.2 interposer board
Graphics
- Options
- 4 x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 192 GB HBM3e each, 900 GB/s coherent memory through NVLink CPU-GPU interconnect (GB200 NVL4 configuration)
Expansion
- Slots
- Up to 4 x PCIe Gen5 x16 full-height half-length slots, front risers only (2 per CPU)
- PCIe cards
- 1 x NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC (full height, half length) supported
- OCP
- 1 x OCP 3.0 NIC card slot (4C+ connector, PCIe Gen5 x16, 86 W)
Networking
- Fabric
- 4 x16 CX7 or 2 x CX8 OSFP network ports
Power
- Delivery
- No onboard PSU; up to 54 VDC via IR7000 rack power busbar connector
- Rack power shelf
- IR7000 33 kW Power Shelf (PS33): 6 x 5500 W AC PSUs, 200-277 V AC input, >97.5% peak efficiency, N+1 or half-shelf redundancy
- Cooling
- Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) for CPUs/GPUs via rear Universal Quick Disconnect (UQD) inlet/outlet to the rack DLC manifold; 8 standard cooling fans for air-cooled components
Ports
- Front I/O
- 1 x USB 3.0 Type-A, 1 x USB 2.0 Host/Managed Type-C, 2 x RJ45 dedicated iDRAC Ethernet ports, 1 x Mini-DisplayPort
Physical
- Dimensions
- 46.45 mm H (1.83 in) x 560 mm W (22.05 in) x 840.85 mm D (33.10 in)
- Weight
- 33.07 kg (72.90 lb)
- Form factor
- 1 OU (Open Rack Unit) sled for the IR7000 ORv3 rack; up to 36 nodes per 50 OU rack
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC10, Aspeed AST2600 BMC (DC-SCI compatible), BMC-to-NVIDIA HMC bridge for HPM management
Operating systems
- Supported
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processors
- NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip