Open standards and modular AI shaping Dell’s tech vision [Video]

For Dell Technologies Inc., the journey into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing has been a meticulously planned marathon rather than a sprint. What once was a hardware-focused company is now at the forefront of open innovation, blazing a trail in modular AI systems and networking solutions.

“Three years ago, we started to work on scalable systems, which is what you have on the floor now, and we wanted to be a much bigger player in HPC as well as AI,” said Ihab Tarazi (pictured, left), senior vice president and chief technology officer of core, AI and networking at Dell. “We took a different path than most people. We decided to build a fully open system based on OCP specs, ORV3 21 inch, and also DC-MHS for the compute and fully open on software. We also wanted this to be the most dense, best in terms of performance, and a fully open system.”

Tarazi and Arun Narayanan…