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Conclusion
The Dell EMC 14
th
Generation server, PowerEdge R940, is superior to its predecessor in several ways. By taking advantage of more
memory channels supported with Skylake-SP and faster memory speed, R940 demonstrates speed gain as well as more efficient
memory usage. SOAPdenvo2 actually consumes less memory since it process more data faster on R940. This means that even 6
billion reads data can be processed on R940 with 1.5TB memory which was not possible to run on R930 (based on estimations from
linear curve fittings of peak memory consumptions from Figure 7). Overall Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 is strongly recommended for de
novo assembly applications over R930 for the speed and the efficiency.
Figure 8 ScanRead tests by pmbw suit
Figure 9 ScanWrite tests by pmbw suit