Dell PowerEdge R820 - Manual (Page 5)

Performance Analysis of HPC Applications on Several Dell PowerEdge 12 th Generation Servers
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Executive summary
In the last six months there have been a variety of new servers available in the market. These servers
have several architectural differences as well as support for different amounts of memory, PCI-E slots,
hard disks, and so on. All these models are good candidates for High Performance Computing clusters,
but certain questions remain unanswered: Which server model is best suited for a specific application?
What features of the architecture make it the ideal choice?
In this technical white paper, different server designs are compared using several high performance
computing workloads. At a cluster-level, a quantitative study is undertaken analyzing both
performance and energy efficiency across the different server models. The paper analyses the
measured results and concludes with recommended configurations for each application.