DELL PowerEdge XE9680 AI Server

Description

PowerEdge XE servers are acceleration-optimized, purpose-built for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), and High Performance Computing (HPC). With superior acceleration and diverse GPU options, these powerful platforms are optimized to turn ideas into action faster.

No-compromise accelerated AI
Rapidly develop, train and deploy large machine learning models with this high-performance application server designed for HPC super computing clusters and the largest data sets for AI, used for large scale natural language processing,recommendation engines and neural network applications.

Customization & Services
Professional guidance to address individual customer needs, from defining goals and designing architectures, to building AI models

Intelligent Automation
Simplify and automate management and monitoring with iDRAC, OME support and CloudIQ for AIOps

Security
Built-in platform security features, including Secured Component Verification and Silicon Root of Trust

Partners
Turnkey AI solutions with expansive partner ecosystem including Hugging Face, Meta, NVIDIA, SI

Product Features

Powerful and flexible

Drive fastest-time-to-value with no-compromise AI acceleration with Intel CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs and next generation technology for memory, storage and expansion to achieve the highest performance.

* Break through boundaries with two 4th generation Intel® Xeon® processors and eight GPUs.
* Flexibility to choose 8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXMS GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology, or 8 AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators fully interconnected with AMD Infinity Fabric
* Operate air-cooled (up to 35°C) with improved energy efficiency from Dell’s Smart Cooling technology

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Scale seamlessly and securely

Deploy and enable AI business - wide and for all your AI initiatives with powerful features and capabilities, using the latest technology.

* Scale up your needs supporting up to 32 DDR5 memory DIMM slots, up to 8 U.2 drives and up to 10 front facing PCIe Gen 5 expansion slots
* Deploy Al operations confidently with built - in platform security features, even before the server is built, including Secured Component Verification and Silicon Root of Trust
* Manage your Al operations efficiently and consistently with full iDRAC compliance and Open Management Enterprise (OME) support for all PowerEdge servers

Product Parameters

Processor	• Two 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 64 cores per processor • Two 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 56 cores per processor
Memory	• 32 DDR5 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM 4 TB max, • Speeds up to 5600 MT/s on the 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors •Speeds up to 4800 MT/s on the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors • Supports registered ECC DDR5 DIMMs only
GPU	• 8 NVI DIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVI DIA NVLink technology or • 8 NVI DIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVI DIA NVLink technology or • 8 NVI DIA HGX H20 96GB 500W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVI DIA NVLink technology or • 8 AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB 750W OAM accelerator with AMD Infinity Fabric connectivity or • 8 Intel Gaudi 3 128GB 900W OAM accelerator with embedded RoCE ports for ethernet connectivity
Storage controllers	• Internal Controllers (RAID): PERC H965i (Not supported with Intel Gaudi3) • Internal boot: Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem(NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs • Software RAID: S160
Front bays	• Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA SSD drives max 122.88 TB • Up to 16 x E3.S NVMe direct drives max 122.88 TB Note: Only 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD drives are supported with Intel Gaudi3.
Power Supplies	• 3200W Titanium 277 VAC or 260-400 VDC, hot swap redundant (only available in the US & Canada) • 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant
Cooling Options	Air cooling
Chipset	Intel® C741 chipset
PCIe	Up to 10 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length (8 PCIe slots with Intel Gaudi 3)
Embedded NIC	2 x 1 GbE
Network Options	1 x OCP 3.0 (x8 PCIe lanes)
Fans	• Up to six high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed in mid tray • Up to ten high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the rear of the system (up to 12 fans with Intel Gaudi 3) • All are hot swap fans
Dimensions and weight	• Height — 263.2 mm (10.36 inches) • Width — 482.0 mm (18.97 inches) • Depth — 1008.77 mm (39.71 inches) with bezel — 995 mm (39.17 inches) without bezel • Weight — up to 114.05 kg (251.44 pounds)
Form Factor	6U rack server
Embedded Management	• iDRAC9 • iDRAC Direct • iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish • iDRAC Service Module
Ports	Front ports • 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port • 1 x USB 2.0 • 1 x VGA Rear ports • 1 x USB 2.0 • 1 x USB 3.0 • 1 x VGA • 1 x RJ45 iDRAC9 ethernet port

Product Applications

Systems management and security solutions

OpenManage systems management

Tame the complexity of your IT environment with Dells
Technologies’ OpenManage systems management portfolio which uses tools and solutions to discover, deploy, monitor, manage, update and secure your PowerEdge infrastructure.

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Intelligent automation

Integrate tools across your portfolio with PowerEdge iDRAC,
OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ solutions that help organisations automate their server lifecycles, optimise operations and scale efficiently.

Built-in security

Stay protected at every phase of the product lifecycle with the PowerEdge cyber resilient architecture that helps accelerate your adoption of a Zero Trust security strategy. From the silicon root of trust, signed firmware and verification, secured component drift detection to BIOS recovery and dynamic system lockdown, you can rest assured that your servers are secure.

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