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Garima Kochhar and Nishanth Dandapanthula High Performance Computing Engineering July 2012 | Version 1.0 Optimal BIOS settings for HPC

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 10 Details of each of these settings are provided in [4]. A quick overvie

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 11 CPU Power Management determines what controls the power management for t

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 12 The Performance Optimized System Profile focuses on pure performance. Tu

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 13 Figure 2. Local, remote and interleaved memory bandwidth * Data colle

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 14  C States, C1E, Monitor/Mwait – Disabled. This is to turn off all powe

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 15 Table 5. Benchmark and application details Application Domain Version B

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 16 5.1. Idle power Very few clusters tend to be fully utilized, i.e., runn

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 17 The next graph presents the impact of some BIOS options on idle power co

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 18 used for the chart is the DAPC profile; all results are relative to DAPC

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 19 The Performance profile significantly improves MILC performance (21%), a

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers ii This document is for informational purposes only and

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 20 energy efficiency of Turbo Boost disabled will be better than with Turbo

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 21 Results are shown in Figure 7. The bar graph plots the performance of th

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 22 The bar graphs plot the performance with Logical Processor enabled when

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 23 Figure 9. Impact of C States and C1E on remote memory access * Data co

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 24 Table 6. 11th and 12th generation cluster test bed details Component 11

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 25 Figure 10. 11th vs. 12th generation cluster – idle power comparison *

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 26 shows the performance improvement with the new cluster relative to the p

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 27 Table 7 summarizes the different options and the recommended settings fo

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 28 8. References 1. Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers http://content

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 29 Appendix A – Summary of findings This section summarizes results from th

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers iii Contents Executive summary ...

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 30 Turbo Boost 6) Turbo Boost disabled reduces application performanc

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 31 Appendix B – Dell Deployment Toolkit to modify BIOS options from the com

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 32 On StackIQ Rocks+ Dell clusters, syscfg is installed in /opt/dell/toolki

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers iv Figures Figure 1. Sandy Bridge-EP architecture for a PowerEdge R620 ...

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 5 Executive summary The latest Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers provi

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 6 1. Introduction Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers1 include the Inte

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 7 The following features are common to the servers:  Support for processo

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 8 Like Westmere-EP, Sandy Bridge is also a NUMA-based architecture. Figure

Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers 9 Table 2. Intel Sandy Bridge-based servers Architecture Processor Series