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DELL HPC INNOVATION LABS ZENITH COMPUTE CLUSTER
Compute Clients
64 x PowerEdge C6320s
Processor
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz
No. of cores = 18 per processor (36 per node)
Processor Base Frequency: 2.3GHz
AVX Base: 2.0GHz
Memory
128 GB @ 2400 MHz per node
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (7.3 for H600 tests)
Kernel
3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 (3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 for H600 tests)
System BIOS
Profile
Max Performance
• Turbo mode: Enabled
• C-states: disabled
• Node interleave: disabled
• Logical processor: disabled
• Snoop mode: opportunistic snoop broadcast
• I/O-Nonposted Prefetch: Disabled
Network
1GbE, 10GbE, and Intel OmniPath
Table 2. Zenith Compute Cluster Node Configuration Details