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4 Dell HPC Omni-Path Fabric: Supported Architecture and Application Study June 2016

List of Figures

Figure 1 Intel

Omni-Path Host Fabric Interface Adapter 100 series 1 port PCIe x16 ........................................................9

Figure 2 Dell H-Series Switches ................................................................................................................................................... 10

Figure 3 Dell H1024-OPF Edge Switch ...................................................................................................................................... 10

Figure 4 H1048-OPF Edge Switch .............................................................................................................................................. 10

Figure 5 H9106-OPF

(left)

and H9124-OPF

(right)

Director-Class Switches ...................................................................... 11

Figure 6 Intel

Omni-Path Fabric Suite Fabric Manager Home page overview .................................................................. 13

Figure 7 Intel

Omni-Path Chassis Viewer Overview .............................................................................................................. 14

Figure 8 Fastfabric Tools ............................................................................................................................................................... 15

Figure 9 Starting Embedded Subnet Manager .......................................................................................................................... 17

Figure 10 OSU Latency values based on Intel

Xeon

CPU E5-2697 v4 processor ........................................................... 20

Figure 11 OSU Bandwidth values based on Intel

Xeon

CPU E5-2697 v4 processor. ..................................................... 21

Figure 12 Weather Research Forecasting model performance graph .................................................................................... 21

Figure 13 NAMD performance graph........................................................................................................................................... 22

Figure 14 ANSYS

Fluent

Relative Performance Graph (1/2) ................................................................................................. 23

Figure 15 ANSYS

Fluent

Relative Performance (2/2) ............................................................................................................. 23

Figure 16 STAR-CCM+

Relative Performance Graph (1/2) .................................................................................................... 24

Figure 17 STAR-CCM+

Relative Performance (2/2) ................................................................................................................ 25

List of tables

Table 1 Server Configuration .......................................................................................................................................................... 18

Table 2 Application and benchmarks Details ........................................................................................................................... 19