Dell PowerEdge XE9780L
The direct-liquid-cooled counterpart to the XE9780: a 3 OU compute node for Dell's IR7000 Open Rack series, pairing two 6th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with eight liquid-cooled, NVLink-connected NVIDIA HGX B300 (or B200) GPUs.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 × DDR5 RDIMM
- Max
- 4 TB
- Speed
- Up to 6400 MT/s
Storage
- Bays
- 16 × E1.S NVMe (122.88 TB max), or 8 × U.2 NVMe + 2 × U.2 NVMe via PCIe CEM (307.2 TB max)
- Boot
- Embedded BOSS: HWRAID 0/1, 2 × M.2 NVMe SSDs
- Controller
- Direct-attach PCIe only (no PERC/HBA)
Graphics
- Options
- 8 × NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL8 270 GB 1100 W SXM6, fully interconnected via NVIDIA NVLink; 8 × NVIDIA HGX B200 180 GB 1000 W SXM6 also supported
Expansion
- PCIe
- Up to 4 × Gen5 x16 Full-Height Half-Length slots, front risers only
- OSFP
- 8 × CX8 OSFP (default, B300)
- Networking
- 1 × OCP NIC 3.0 card (x16 PCIe lanes)
Networking
- Embedded
- 2 × dedicated RJ45 iDRAC Ethernet ports
- OCP
- 1 × OCP NIC 3.0 (x16 PCIe lanes)
Power
- Supplies
- 6 × 5500 W AC PSUs installed in the rack power shelf (33 kW total), redundant, hot-swap
- Output
- 54 VDC to the sled via rack busbar
- Cooling
- Liquid-cooled CPUs, CX8, GPUs and NVLink switches; 4 standard fans on UBB + 8 standard fans on HPM
Ports
- Front
- 1 × USB 3.0 Type-A, 1 × Mini-DisplayPort, 1 × USB 2.0 Type-C, 2 × RJ45 dedicated iDRAC Ethernet (all on the FIO board)
- Internal
- 1 × USB 3.1 Type-A
Physical
- Dimensions
- 140.5 mm × 537 mm × 1047.95 mm (H×W×D, UBB); 889.65 mm deep for the HPM tray alone
- Weight
- 107.2 kg (236.33 lb) maximum
- Form factor
- 3 OU compute node, installed in an IR7044 (44 OU) or IR7050 (50 OU) Open Rack
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC10, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, RACADM CLI, iDRAC Service Module
- Tools
- IPMI, Red Hat Ansible Modules, Terraform Providers
- Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware, Data at Rest Encryption, Secure Boot, Secured Component Verification, Secure Erase, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown, soldered-down TPM on Mezzanine DC-SCM, Chassis Intrusion Detection
Operating systems
- Supported
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (post-launch)
Processors
- Intel Xeon 6787P
- Intel Xeon 6776P
- Intel Xeon 6767P
- Intel Xeon 6747P