Dell EMC DSS8440 system feature overview

The DSS 8440 is designed to deliver exceptionally high performance for machine learning applications, with up to 10 accelerators, high speed PCIe fabric, and extensive local storage. It is ideal for machine learning training applications as well as other compute-intensive workloads.

The DSS 8440 is a 2 socket, 4U server designed to deliver exceptionally high performance for machine learning applications, with industry leading accelerators, and extensive local storage.

The DSS8440 is a 4U PCIe Accelerator Server by PCIe Switch Board(PSB) with PCIe downstream up to 10x general-purpose double width graphics processing unit (GPGPU), 8x NVMe, 4x (center) + 4x (right, optional) rear-PCIe slots and upstream the 14G leveraged PowerEdge C4140.

The system contains configuration-A with 8x/10x double width GPGPU, 10x 2.5” hot-swap storage-drives (no expander), single or dual Skylake processors, 845.4mm maximum length, PCIe slots (through PCIe Switch Board(PSB) and C4140 risers), 24x DIMM slots, quad hot-plug power-supply units, rNDC, and the ability to use an HBA for the data drives.

Figure 1. DSS8440 system feature overview

Figure 2. Front view of the system