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Dell Unveils Project Lightning to Boost AI Performance

11/18/2025

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Dell announced at SuperComputing 2025 that Project Lightning will enhance PowerScale performance via parallel I/O.
The updates include NIXL-powered storage acceleration and next-generation PowerEdge servers with Blackwell GPUs.
Dell's collaboration with NVIDIA aims to provide scalable AI infrastructure for large-context workloads using NVIDIA Dynamo.
PowerScale is now available in software-only subscription licenses, enabling customers to separate compute from hardware.
ObjectScale adds AI-optimized search capabilities to improve data retrieval for analytics.

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Dell announced at SuperComputing 2025 that Project Lightning will enhance PowerScale performance via parallel I/O.
The updates include NIXL-powered storage acceleration and next-generation PowerEdge servers with Blackwell GPUs.
Dell's collaboration with NVIDIA aims to provide scalable AI infrastructure for large-context workloads using NVIDIA Dynamo.
PowerScale is now available in software-only subscription licenses, enabling customers to separate compute from hardware.
ObjectScale adds AI-optimized search capabilities to improve data retrieval for analytics.