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Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake
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Contents
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Key findings ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Performance with Cascade Lake-SP ................................................................................... 5
Arithmetic performance ............................................................................................................................................. 6
SPEC CPU2017 integer tests .............................................................................................. 6
SPEC CPU2017 floating-point tests .................................................................................... 7
High Performance Computing (HPC) performance tests ..................................................... 8
Memory subsystem performance ............................................................................................................................ 9
STREAM-triad ...................................................................................................................... 9
Energy Efficiency ......................................................................................................................................................10
SPECpower_ssj2008 ......................................................................................................... 10
Business Transaction Performance .......................................................................................................................11
SPECjbb2015 ..................................................................................................................... 11
SAP-SD 2-Tier, Linux / Sybase .......................................................................................... 12
Summary ....................................................................................................................................................................13
Appendix A — Test configurations .........................................................................................................................14
Appendix B —PowerEdge Server Floating Point Operations per Second .......................................................15
Appendix C — PowerEdge Server Total Memory Bandwidth ............................................................................16
Appendix D- 2S SPECcpu2017 RATE throughput metric results across the Xeon Cascade Lake-SP,
Skylake-SP and Cascade Lake Refresh processor families ..............................................................................17