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18 Dell HPC Omni-Path Fabric: Supported Architecture and Application Study June 2016
4 Test bed and configuration
This section explains the server configuration, BIOS options and application versions used for the application
performance study. This study utilized the Zenith cluster located in the Dell HPC Innovation Lab.
Component
Details
Server
32 PowerEdge R630
Processor
Intel
®
Xeon
®
CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
No. of cores: 14
Processor Base Freq: 2.6GHz
AVX Base Freq: 2.2GHz
Memory
8*8 GB @ 2133MHz
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
Kernel-release
3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
BIOS version
2.0.2
System Profile
Performance Profile
• Turbomode : Enabled
• Cstates : disabled
• Nodeinterleave : disabled
• Logical processor : disabled
• Snoop mode : Cluster-On-Die
• IO-NonpostedPrefetch: Disabled
HFI card
Intel
®
OPA HFI Adapter 100 series
Switch
Firmware
Fabric Manager
Dell Networking H1048 OPF Edge Switch
10.0.1.0.21
Host Based FM
Intel OPA IFS
10.0.1.1.5 (pre-release)
Table 1 Server Configuration
The Intel
®
Scalable Solutions Framework is a combination of technologies and recommendations that
together provide a set of building blocks and reference architectures for designing flexible HPC systems.
The Zenith cluster, housed in Dell’s HPC innovation Center, leverages the Intel
®
SSF in its design. Currently
at 256 nodes, Zenith utilizes Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processors, Intel Omni-Path fabric, Intel
®
Enterprise Edition
Lustre
®
, and various Intel software such as Intel
®
Parallel Studio.