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19 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing—Dassault Systѐmes’ Simulia Abaqus Performance
Overall, these benchmarks display the performance of the Window based Basic Building Block is comparable
to or greater than the typical dual-socket based Linux server. Except for the modal analysis S3d benchmark
models, there was a modest to noticeable performance gain from using 32 cores (two sockets) to 64 cores
(four sockets) with the server. Since these test models were small in size, testing above 64 cores would not
have been advantageous. However, we anticipate the potential for good performance gains for larger
customer datasets using a cluster of two Basic Building Blocks described above. Customers could
incrementally increase their solution capabilities by adding more BBBs, aggregating them into more powerful
couplets, re-provision them from Windows to Linux, and eventually aggregate them with an InfiniBand switch
into a single HPC cluster based on BBBs, all while preserving their hardware investment, and minimizing
production downtime.
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Performance
(relativite to Linux 6142 based R640)
Figure 10: Basic Building Block Performance
S3D S4B S4D S6 E1 E3 E6