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Optimal BIOS settings for HPC with Dell PowerEdge 12
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Figure 1. Sandy Bridge-EP architecture for a PowerEdge R620 ................................................ 8
Figure 2. Local, remote and interleaved memory bandwidth ................................................ 13
Figure 3. Idle power usage across different System Profiles ................................................. 16
Figure 4. Impact of power-based BIOS options on idle power ............................................... 17
Figure 5. Performance and Energy Efficiency of System Profiles on applications ........................ 18
Figure 6. Performance and Energy Efficiency of Turbo Boost ................................................ 19
Figure 7. Performance and Energy Efficiency of Node Interleaving ........................................ 20
Figure 8. Performance and Energy Efficiency of Logical Processor ......................................... 21
Figure 9. Impact of C States and C1E on remote memory access ........................................... 23
Figure 10. 11
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vs. 12
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generation cluster – idle power comparison ......................................... 25
Figure 11. 11
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vs. 12
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generation cluster – performance and energy efficiency comparison ........... 25