Administrator Guide

3 RAPIDS Scaling on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
Table of Contents
1 RAPIDS Overview ............................................................................................................................ 5
1.1 XGBoost ................................................................................................................................. 6
1.2 Dask for Parallel Computing ................................................................................................... 7
1.3 Why RAPIDS, Dask and XGBoost? ........................................................................................ 8
1.4 New York City (NYC) – Taxi Dataset ...................................................................................... 8
1.5 E2E NYC-Taxi Notebook ........................................................................................................ 9
1.6 RAPIDS Memory Manager (RMM) .......................................................................................... 9
2 System Configuration ..................................................................................................................... 10
3 Results on Single Node .................................................................................................................. 11
4 Results on Multi Node on C4140-M ................................................................................................ 13
5 Results with System Profile in “Performance” Mode ....................................................................... 15
6 Conclusion and Future Work .......................................................................................................... 17
A Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Specifications................................................................................... 18
B Terminology ................................................................................................................................... 19
C Example; GPU Activity with C4140-M in Multi Node Mode ............................................................. 20
D Dask Diagnostic Dashboard ........................................................................................................... 22
E NVDashboard – Nvidia GPU Dashboard ........................................................................................ 25
F Environment set up ........................................................................................................................ 28
G Notebook NYC-Taxi Set Up............................................................................................................ 29
H RAPIDS Multi Node Set Up ............................................................................................................ 30
I Bios Settings to Boost Performance ............................................................................................... 31
J Common Errors .............................................................................................................................. 33
K Technical Resources ...................................................................................................................... 34
K.1 Related Resources ............................................................................................................... 34