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Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................... 4 Overview ............................................................................................................. 4 Table 1. Supported Server Configurations .....................................................................
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Introduction High Performance Computing (HPC) Clustering is the concept of building cost-effective, computation intensive and performance optimized solutions built from commodity servers, storage, operating system, middleware libraries and high bandwidth low latency interconnects.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers The Table 2 above provides a snapshot of the advantages of the server configurations. The color coding refers to what category they fall into. For example a R730 or C4130 would be design choices for codes or algorithms that have potential performance improvement and can take advantage of GPU programming models.
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Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Master /Compute Node Configurations The section below goes into more details regarding the server configuration and specs. The specific nodes are design considerations for master and compute nodes. A master node is generally the node that manages home directories, security and stores repositories for the cluster nodes.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Two PCIe 3.0 x8 slots S130, Η330, Η730, Η730P and Η830 RAID controller support SAS, SATA, Near-line SAS, SSD, PCIe SSD support Maximum storage on M630 - Up to 10 x 2.5” BP Memory population for R430: The R430 server supports DDR4 registered DIMMS (RDIMMS). Memory bus operating frequency can be 2133MT/s, 1866MT/s, 1600MT/s, or 1333MT/s.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Compute Node Configurations: PowerEdge C6320 This is a half-height sled that fits into a 2U chassis. The chassis can support upto four sleds. Intel® Xeon E5-2600 v3 up to 18 cores Processor support of 85W, 90W,105W, 120W, 135W, 145W Two socket Support for Mellanox ConnectX3 FDR mezz card Two QPI links up to 9.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Stream bandwidth for FC430 nodes with 8C and 12C with varying Snoop Modes and impact on Infiniband bandwidth and latency. System info: Dual socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz (8core) and Intel Xeon ® CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50 GHz (12 core), 8 x 16GB DDR4 Bios: 1.0.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers The Infiniband bandwidth and bi-bandwidth for 12core processor servers is fairly consistent across all snoop modes. PowerEdge FC830 This server is a full-width form factor and holds up to 2 nodes per PowerEdge FX2 enclosure. Intel® Xeon E5-4600 v3 up to 18 cores Processor support of 55W, 65W, 85W, 90W,105W, 120W, 135W Four socket Four QPI links up to 9.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers PowerEdge C4130 The C4130 server is available in various flavors with 2GPUs/4GPUs 1CPU/2CPU. So the recommended configuration depends on the customer requirement, the GPU/accelerators used and the application being run on the servers. PowerEdge R930 This is a 4S server generally used as a fat node for applications requiring large amount of memory.
Dell HPC General Computing – Configuration and Supported Architecture with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Up to 37.5 MB last level cache (LLC): up to 2.5 MB per core instruction/data last level cache (LLC), shared among all cores Three QPI links up to 9.6 GT/s Four DMI2 lanes 32 PCIe Gen3 links capable of 8.
