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Performance benchmarking was performed in the Dell HPC and AI Innovation Lab using the system configurations listed in Table 2.
Building Block | Quantity |
Computational Server PowerEdge C6520 Dual Intel Xeon Gold 8358 (32 cores per socket) 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 3200 MTps DIMMs NVIDIA ConnectX-6 HDR200 adapter Liquid Cooled | 32 |
Computational Server 4x NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB | 1 |
Computational Server PowerEdge R7525 Dual AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core Processor 512 GB RAM 16x32GB 3200 MTps DIMMs 3x NVIDIA A100-80 GB NVIDIA ConnectX-6 HDR200 adapter | 1 |
NVIDIA QM8790 InfiniBand Switch | 1 |
The BIOS configuration options used for the reference system are listed in Table 3.
BIOS Option | Setting |
Logical Processor | Disabled |
Virtualization Technology | Disabled |
System Profile | Performance Profile |
NumaPerSocket | 4 |
The software versions used for the reference system are listed in Table 4.
Component | Version |
Operating System | Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa) |
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 |
CUDA | 11.4.2 |
NVIDIA driver | 470.57.02 |
NVIDIA Clara Parabricks | 4.0.0-1 |