Reference Guide

Reference System
12 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ Processors—ANSYS®
Performance
3 Reference System
Performance benchmarking was performed in the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab using system
configurations as listed in Table 2.
Table 2 Benchmark System Configurations
Building Block
Quantity
Compute Building Block (CBB)
PowerEdge C6525
Dual AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processors
256GB RAM 16x16GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100 InfiniBand
8
Compute Building Block (CBB)
PowerEdge C6525
Dual AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core Processors
256GB RAM 16x16GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
1
Compute Building Block (CBB)
PowerEdge C6525
Dual AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core Processors
256GB RAM 16x16GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
1
Compute Building Block (CBB)
PowerEdge C6525
Dual AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core Processors
256GB RAM 16x16GB 3200 MTps DIMMs
1
Mellanox QM8700 InfiniBand Switch
1
The BIOS configuration options used for the benchmark systems are listed in Table 3.
Table 3 BIOS Configuration
BIOS Option
Setting
Logical Processor
Disabled
Virtualization Technology
Disabled
System Profile
Performance Profile
CCX as NUMA Domain
Disabled
NUMA Nodes Per Socket
4