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Dell Validated Design for HPC Life Science with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Dell PowerScale
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System configuration

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System configuration

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

    Table 2.      Benchmark system configuration

    Building block

    Quantity

    • Computational server

    • PowerEdge C6620 server

    • Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ CPUs

    • Direct Liquid Cooling

    • 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 4800 MTps DIMMs

    • NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NDR InfiniBand adapter

    16

    • NVIDIA QM9790 InfiniBand Switch

    1


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

    Table 3.      BIOS configuration

    BIOS Option

    Setting

    Logical processor

    Disabled

    System profile

    Performance Profile

    SubNumaCluster

    4-way


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

    Table 4.      Software versions

    Component

    Version

    Operating system

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6

    Kernel

    4.18.0-372.43.1.el8_6.x86_64

    OFED

    MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0

    Bright Cluster Manager

    9.2


    The following table shows the system configuration of the storage nodes used: 

    Table 5.      PowerScale F600 configuration, high-performance scratch tier

    Storage Node

    Quantity

    • CPU: 2x Xeon Gold 6248R

    • Mem: 752GB (23x 32GB DDR4 @ 2933 MT/s 1x16GB Micron NVDIMM-N DDR4)

    • HDD: 8x Dell Ent NVMe v2 AGN RI U.2 1.92TB

    • 100 Gb NICs: 2x Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 100 GbE QSFP Adapter

    • BIOS: 2.8.2

    • iDRAC: 4.40.10.00

    • OneFS:  9.4.0.3

    4

    • Total usable space: 53 TB