Technical specifications
Dell PowerEdge XE9680L — Full Technical Specifications
The XE9680L is the liquid-cooled sibling of Dell's eight-accelerator system, built for the newest and hottest accelerator modules and for rooms equipped to take heat out in water rather than in air. It is a data-centre commitment rather than a server purchase. Ordered new, specified with Dell and with whoever runs the facility.
Official datasheet
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Full Specifications
Start at the cooling note attached to the processor row, because it governs everything else on this sheet: this variant assumes liquid to the processors, the accelerators and the interconnect switches, and a room without that plumbing cannot host it regardless of what the rest of the table says. The accelerator row then lists two module families with different power draws, and the power-supply row changes with the choice — read the two together rather than in order. Storage is deliberately minimal in this class, since the data lives on the fabric, so do not read the short bay row as an omission. The physical row is the last gate: height, depth and weight here exceed what an ordinary cabinet is built for.
| Processor | Two 5th Generation Intel™ Xeon™ Scalable processors with up to 64 cores per processor; Cooling options; Liquid cooled CPUs, GPUs, and NVLink Switches; |
| Operating System | Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS |
| Chipset | Intel® C741 chipset |
| Accelerators | 8 x NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology**; 8 x NVIDIA HGX B200 180GB 1000W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology |
| Memory | DIMM Speed; Up to 5600 MT/s on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable processors at 1 DPC; Up to 4400 MT/s on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable processors at 2 DPC; Memory Type; RDIMM; Memory Module Slots; 32 DDR5 DIMM slots; Maximum RAM; RDIMM 4 TB max |
| Storage | Front Bays; Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe drives max 122.88 TB; |
| Storage Controllers | Internal Boot; Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs; Internal controllers; NA |
| Security | Cryptographically signed firmware; Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt); Secure Boot; Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check); Secure Erase; Silicon Root of Trust; System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter); TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified |
| Management | Embedded / At-the-Server; iDRAC9; iDRAC Direct; iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish; iDRAC Service Module; Consoles; CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in; OpenManage Enterprise; OpenManage Power Manager plugin; OpenManage Service plugin; OpenManage Update Manager plugin |
| Power Supplies | 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant; 3000W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant for B200 GPU |
| Ports | Network Options; 1 x OCP 3.0 (x8 PCIe lanes); 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 iDRAC Direct ethernet port |
| Slots | PCIe; Up to 12 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length; Bezel; Optional LCD bezel or security bezel |
| Dimensions & Weight | Height; 174.3 mm (6.86"); Width; Upper 2U: 447 mm (17.59"); Lower 2U: 434 mm (17.08"); Depth; 1037.57 mm (40.82") with bezel; 1025.62 mm (40.37") without bezel; Weight; Up to 210.76 lbs (95.6 kgs) |
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