Dell PowerEdge XE9640
Dell's first liquid-cooled 4-way GPU server: a 2U, 2-socket Intel Xeon Scalable platform that direct-liquid-cools both CPUs and GPUs, built for dense HPC and AI training/inference acceleration.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 DDR5 RDIMM (only 16 populated for Intel GPU systems, 8 per CPU; 8/16/32 for NVIDIA GPU systems)
- Max
- 1 TB (Intel GPU config) / 2 TB (NVIDIA GPU config)
- Speed
- Up to 5600 MT/s (1DPC) / 4800 MT/s (1DPC) / 4400 MT/s (2DPC)
- Type
- DDR5 registered ECC RDIMM only
Storage
- Bays
- Up to 4 x 2.5" NVMe SSD, 61.44 TB max
- Controllers
- Internal boot: BOSS-N1 (HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSD); Software RAID S160
Graphics
- Options
- 4 x NVIDIA H100 SXM 700 W GPUs (NVLink) or 4 x Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 OAM 600 W GPUs (XeLink)
Expansion
- Slots
- Up to 4 x PCIe Gen5 x16 (2 full height + 2 low profile, half length), 2-CPU configuration
Networking
- Embedded NIC
- 2 x 1 GbE LOM (optional)
- OCP
- 1 x OCP 3.0 card slot (x8 PCIe lanes)
Power
- Supplies
- Up to 4 x 2800 W AC Titanium, 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot-swap; 2+0 / 2+1 / 2+2 redundancy
- Cooling
- 100% direct liquid cooling for CPUs and GPUs; four HPR Gold dual-fan modules for other components
Ports
- Front
- 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB), 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x VGA
- Rear
- 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x RJ-45 dedicated iDRAC9
Physical
- Dimensions
- 86.8 x 482 x 926.5 mm (3.41 x 18.97 x 36.47 in) with bezel; 912.8 mm (35.93 in) deep without bezel
- Weight
- 43.2 kg (95.23 lb) Intel GPU config / 46.3 kg (102.07 lb) NVIDIA GPU config
- Form factor
- 2U rack server
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, iDRAC Service Module
- Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware, Secure Boot, Silicon Root of Trust, Secured Component Verification, Secure Erase, System Lockdown (iDRAC9 Enterprise/Datacenter), SED data-at-rest encryption, TPM 2.0 FIPS/CC-TCG
Operating systems
- Supported
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processors
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8580
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8562Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8470Q
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8470
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8468
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8452Y
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y+
- Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+
- Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6458Q
- Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y