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Dell Technologies Validated Design for SIMULIA Abaqus® FEA with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
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System configuration

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System configuration

  • Performance benchmarking was performed in the Dell Technologies HPC & AI Innovation Lab using the system configurations listed in the following table:

    Table 3.      Benchmark system configurations

    Building Block

    Quantity

    Computational Server:

    • PowerEdge C6520
    • Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6334
    • 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
    • NVIDIA ConnectX-6 HDR100 adapter

    1

    Computational Server:

    • PowerEdge C6520
    • Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6346
    • 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
    • NVIDIA ConnectX-6 HDR100 adapter

    1

    Computational Server:

    • PowerEdge C6520
    • Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 6342
    • 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
    • NVIDIA ConnectX-6 HDR adapter

    1

    Computational Server:

    • PowerEdge C6520
    • Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8358
    • 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
    • NVIDIA ConnectX-6 HDR adapter

    8

    NVIDIA QM8790 InfiniBand Switch

    1

    The following table lists the BIOS configuration options used for the reference system:

    Table 4.      BIOS configuration

    BIOS Option

    Setting

    Logical Processor

    Disabled

    Virtualization Technology

    Disabled

    Snoop Holdoff Timer

    Roll2kCycles

    System Profile

    Performance Profile

    Sub NUMA Cluster

    2-Way

    The following table lists the software versions used for the reference system:

    Table 5.      Software versions

    Component

    Version

    Operating system

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3

    Kernel

    4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64

    OFED

    NVIDIA Mellanox 5.2-2.2.0.0

    Bright Cluster Manager

    9.0

    SIMULIA Abaqus

    2019, 2021hf6