Home > Workload Solutions > High Performance Computing > White Papers > Dell Validated Design for HPC Digital Manufacturing with Altair Simulation Suite and 3rd Generation Intel Xeon > System configuration
Performance benchmarking was performed in the Dell HPC & AI Innovation Lab using the system configurations listed in the following table:
Building block | Quantity |
Computational Server
| 1 |
Computational server
| 1 |
Computational Server
| 8 |
NVIDIA QM8790 InfiniBand Switch | 1 |
The following table lists the BIOS configuration options used for the reference system:
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:
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 |
Altair AcuSolve | 2021 |
Altair Radioss | 2021 |