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Performance benchmarking was performed in the Dell HPC & AI Innovation Lab using the system configurations listed in the following table:
Building block | Quantity |
| 8 |
| 8 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
The following table lists the BIOS configuration options used for the reference system:
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:
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 |
Ansys Fluent | 2023 R1 |
Ansys Mechanical | 2023 R1 |
LS-DYNA | R13.1.0 Single Precision |