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Dell Validated Design for Government HPC, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics: Mellanox Option
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System configuration

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System configuration

  • Performance benchmarking was conducted in the Dell HPC and AI Innovation Lab using the system configuration listed in Table 4 for a scaled down version of the baseline design for the SCRU.

    Table 4.      Benchmark system configuration

    Partial SCRU

    32x PowerEdge C6620
    Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ – Liquid Cooled
    512 GB RAM 16x 32 GB 4800 MTps DIMMs
    NVIDIA Mellanox Connect-X7 NDR200 HCA

    NVIDIA Mellanox QM9790 NDR Switch

    The BIOS configurations used for the reference systems are described in Table 5.

    Table 5.      BIOS configuration – SCRU

    BIOS Option

    Setting

    Logical processor

    Disabled

    Virtualization technology

    Disabled

    System profile

    Performance

    Sub NUMA clustering

    4-way

    The software versions used for the SCRU reference system are listed in the following table.

    Table 6.      Software versions for SCRU benchmarks

    Component

    Version

    Operating System

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6

    Kernel

    4.18.0-372.43.1.el8_6.x86_64

    Mellanox OFED

    5.9-0.5.6.0

    Bright Cluster Manager

    9.2

    HPL

    2.3 (Intel oneAPI 2023.0.0)

    HPCG

    3.1 (Intel oneAPI 2023.0.0)

    STREAM

    5.10

    OSU Micro-Benchmarks

    5.8

    GROMACS

    2023

    WRF

    4.4