Executive summary – Dell PowerEdge 1655MC User Manual
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Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12
th
generation servers
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Executive summary
The latest Dell PowerEdge 12
th
generation servers provide several BIOS options that can be tuned for
performance and energy efficiency. In this technical white paper, the cluster-level impact of different
BIOS options is quantified and presented for different types of high performance computing (HPC)
workloads. The performance impact and power consumption of various BIOS settings and System
Profiles are compared across several open source and commercial applications, and best practices are
recommended from the measured results.
Comparing these results to the
on Dell’s 11
th
generation servers, this
document also presents the improvements achieved by Dell’s latest servers for HPC workloads.