Administrator Guide

12 RAPIDS Scaling on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
Remote data on NFS versus Local data on SATA:
Another aspect to explore was the effect of using remote data on NFS versus local data on SATA device.
To do so, we tested on the server C4140-M 4xV100-SXM2-16GB with local data 2014-year on SATA drive,
which was just 3% faster than remote data on NFS. See Figure 9
Figure 9. Performance on Server C4140-M Comparing Remote Data on NFS vs Local Data on SATA
Increasing the Dataset Size:
As we mentioned on the test configuration, the dataset size was gradually increased on a year basis and
in this section we added 2015-year as wells as 2016-year dataset to test each server’s compute
capability.
Server PowerEdge R940xa (4xV100PCle-32GB) with RMM enable handled 48.4GB data size
Server PowerEdge R940xa (4xV100PCle-32GB) with RMM enable handled up to 58.8 GB of data size
Figure 10. Largest Dataset Handled by Server R940xa