Dell EMC’s recent announcement of a significant boost for its PowerEdge C4140 server is a nod towards increased customer demand for high-performance computing in a growing number of fields. It’s not just for high profile research projects anymore. HPC is expanding into the airline industry and financial services world as new applications, such as machine learning, become more widely adopted.

“It was what I call being in the back alleys of research and development,” said Ravi Pendekanti (pictured), senior vice president of product management, Server Platforms, at Dell EMC. “We’re at a time in our journey towards helping humanity in a bigger way that HPC has found its way into almost every single mainstream industry you can think of.”

Pendekanti paid a visit to theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with host Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) at Supercomputing 2017 in Denver, Colorado. They discussed evolving new use cases for HPC and future advances in computing acceleration over the next year. (* Disclosure below.)

More industries join HPC bandwagon

Credit card companies, such as MasterCard Inc., are using HPC to find faster and more powerful ways to bolster security and detect fraud. Airlines have approached Dell EMC seeking ways to gather and process all of the data generated from every aircraft flight, according to Pendekanti. And with the coming holidays, retailers are evaluating new approaches to ensure a successful selling season.

“A lot of our customers are looking at how to come up with the right schema to ensure they can stock the right product so that it is available for everyone at the right time,” Pendekanti said.

Dell EMC’s beefed-up PowerEdge, with two Xeon processors and four Nvidia Tesla GPUs, is expected to help customers deploy a range of new solutions, especially when it comes to deep learning. The company apparently also has plans to boost PowerEdge acceleration even further in the coming year.

“The goal behind what we are doing at Dell EMC is to remove the guesswork so that our customers can spend their time deploying the solution,” Pendekanti said. “Do anticipate that there will be a lot more accelerated technology packed into [PowerEdge].”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Supercomputing 2017 conference. (* Disclosure: Dell EMC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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