Dell PowerEdge R820 - Manual (Page 3)

Performance Analysis of HPC Applications on Several Dell PowerEdge 12 th Generation Servers
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Contents
Executive summary ..................................................................................................... 5
1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 6
2. Dell PowerEdge 12 th generation server platforms and Intel processor architecture ................. 6
3. Test bed and applications ...................................................................................... 9
4. Results and analysis ............................................................................................ 12
4.1. Memory bandwidth .......................................................................................... 12
4.2. HPL............................................................................................................. 13
4.3. LU .............................................................................................................. 14
4.4. WRF ............................................................................................................ 15
4.5. ANSYS Fluent ................................................................................................. 16
4.6. MILC ........................................................................................................... 18
4.7. NAMD .......................................................................................................... 18
4.8. Power consumption and energy efficiency ............................................................. 19
5. Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 23
6. References ....................................................................................................... 25
Tables
Table 1. Intel architecture comparison ........................................................................... 7
Table 2. Test bed details .......................................................................................... 10
Table 3. Application and benchmark details ................................................................... 11
Table 4. Results summary - performance ....................................................................... 24
Table 5. Results summary – energy efficiency (EE) ........................................................... 24
Figures
Figure 1. Platform architecture for Sandy Bridge EP (Intel Xeon E5-2600) .................................. 8
Figure 2. Platform architecture for Sandy Bridge EN (Intel Xeon E5-2400) .................................. 8
Figure 3. Platform architecture for Sandy Bridge EP - 4 Socket (Intel Xeon E5-4600) ..................... 9
Figure 4. Memory bandwidth ....................................................................................... 13
Figure 5. HPL performance ......................................................................................... 14
Figure 6. LU performance .......................................................................................... 15
Figure 7. WRF performance ........................................................................................ 16
Figure 8. ANSYS Fluent performance – truck_poly_14m....................................................... 17
Figure 9. ANSYS Fluent performance – truck_111m ............................................................ 17
Figure 10. MILC performance ........................................................................................ 18