Specifications

April 2012 v1 AMD Opteron™ 6200 Linux Tuning Guide
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Increase the size of the arrays if this shows that
you are not getting at least 20 clock ticks per test.
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WARNING -- The above is only a rough guideline.
For best results, please be sure you know the
precision of your system timer.
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Function Rate (MB/s) Avg time Min time Max time
Copy: 73113.2180 0.0194 0.0191 0.0198
Scale: 74003.6161 0.0193 0.0189 0.0197
Add: 68265.6350 0.0310 0.0307 0.0315
Triad: 67651.3341 0.0314 0.0310 0.0317
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Solution Validates
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2.7 Run High Performance Linpack
It is beneficial to run the High Performance Linpak (HPL) benchmark to verify adequate cooling and to burn-
in the system. The HPL benchmark is very demanding on the floating point units and consumes almost peak
power. In addition, it uses a significant amount of memory and checks the answer it computes, checking for
memory errors. Thus, it is an excellent test of system stability. Many HPC centers use HPL to burn-in their new
systems.
For instructions on installing and running the HPL benchmark on servers using AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series
processors, refer to the whitepaper at http://developer.amd.com/Assets/linpack_wp_bd.pdf.