White Papers

13 Dell HPC System for Manufacturing—System Architecture and Application Performance
3 Reference System
The reference system was assembled in the Dell HPC Innovation Lab by using the system building blocks
described in Section 2. The building blocks used for the reference system are listed in Table 1.
Reference System Configuration
Building Block Quantity
Infrastructure Server
1
Explicit Building Block
with EDR InfiniBand
8
Implicit Building Block
2
Implicit GPGPU Building Block
1
VDI Server
1
Dell Networking S3048-ON
Ethernet Switch
1
Mellanox SB7790 EDR
InfiniBand Switch
1
The BIOS configuration options used for the reference system are listed in Table 2.
BIOS Configuration Options
BIOS Option Setting
Logical Processor Disabled
Memory Snoop Mode Opportunistic Snoop Broadcast
Node Interleaving Disabled
System Profile Performance Profile
DAPC Profile also used for idle
power measurements
IONonPostedPrefetch Disabled