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12 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
3 Reference System
The reference system was assembled in the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab using the building blocks
described in section 2. The building blocks used for the reference system are listed in Table 2.
Table 2 Reference System Configuration
Building Block
Quantity
Infrastructure Server
1
Computational Building Block (CBB)
PowerEdge C6420
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6242
192GB RAM 12x16GB 2933 MTps DIMMs
Mellanox ConnectX-5 EDR adapter
2
Computational Building Block (CBB)
PowerEdge C6420
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6252
192 GB RAM 12x16GB 2933 MTps DIMMs
Mellanox ConnectX-5 EDR adapter
8
Basic Building Block
2
Dell Networking S3048-ON Ethernet Switch
1
Mellanox SB7700 EDR InfiniBand Switch
1
The BIOS configuration options used for the reference system are listed in Table 3.
Table 3 BIOS Configuration
BIOS Option
Setting
Logical Processor
Disabled
Virtualization Technology
Disabled
System Profile
Performance Profile
Sub NUMA Cluster
Enabled (CBB)
Disabled (BBB)
The software versions used for the reference system are listed in Table 4.