Refreshed PowerEdge Server Performance and Energy Efficiency This white paper details the performance improvements of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with the 2nd Gen “Cascade Lake” Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Family.
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Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Key findings .............................................................
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Tables Table 1 Benchmark configurations ............................................................................................................. 14 Figures Figure 1 Performance improvement running SPECint_rate_base2017 ...................................................... 6 Figure 2 Performance improvement running SPECfp_rate_base2017 .......................................................
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Executive summary Introduction Dell's refreshed PowerEdge servers are now available with Intel’s second-generation Xeon Processor Scalable family, code named “Cascade Lake-SP”. This new CPU family features up to 28 cores, 38.5 MB of last level caching and (6) 2933 MT/s DDR4 memory channels.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Arithmetic performance SPEC CPU2017 integer tests The widely referenced SPEC CPU2017 benchmark is described on SPEC.org as: The SPEC CPU® 2017 benchmark package contains SPEC's next-generation, industry-standardized, CPU intensive suites for measuring and comparing compute intensive performance, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and compiler.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake SPEC CPU2017 floating-point tests The throughput or rate of a machine carrying out floating-point arithmetic is important to those working today’s biggest problems in science and engineering. In figure 2, we see Xeon Platinum 8280 achieve a 4.5% improvement3 in floating point throughput over the Platinum 8180 with its need for OS-based Spectre/Meltdown security vulnerability mitigations.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake High Performance Computing (HPC) performance tests The widely-available LINPACK4 benchmark is the standard for illustrating a system’s “heavy math” floating point processing power needed for simulating natural phenomena, analyzing structures and machine learning. Cascade Lake-SP’s incrementally improved Turbo Boost levels, IPC and support for 2933M DDR4 provide a nominal uplift over Skylake-SP.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Memory subsystem performance STREAM-triad As CPU throughput performance grows so does the need for the main memory configurations that will maximize aggregate data transfer rate. This is especially true for Cloud and in-memory database applications. Dell new PowerEdge servers with select Cascade Lake-SP processor models support 2933 MT/s DDR4 system memory configurations up from the 2666 MT/s of Skylake-SP.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Energy Efficiency SPECpower_ssj2008 SPECpower_ssj2008 is an industry standard benchmark created by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®) to measure a server’s power and performance across its full range of utilization levels from 100% to idle.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Business Transaction Performance SPECjbb2015 According to the SPEC website: This benchmark models a Java-based business application for a worldwide supermarket company with an IT infrastructure that handles a mix of point-of-sale requests, online purchases and data-mining operations.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake SAP-SD 2-Tier, Linux / Sybase The (Sales and Distribution) benchmark is described on the SAP web site as: The Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark covers a sell-from-stock scenario, which includes the creation of a customer order with five-line items and the corresponding delivery with subsequent goods movement and invoicing. The SAP-SD Two-Tier benchmark’s primary metric is the Number of Benchmark Users.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Summary Dell’s refreshed PowerEdge servers with the new Cascade Lake-SP processor models, can provide even more performance from all scientific analysis and business transaction workloads.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Appendix A — Test configurations Table 1 Benchmark configurations Benchmark SPECint_rate_base2017 SPECfp_rate_base2006 High Performance LINPAC STREAM SPECpower_ssj2008 SPECjbb2015 SAP SD Two-Tier, Linux 14 Processor quantity Skylake-SP4 family processor DIMM quantity DIMM specifications 2 Xeon Platinum 8280 12 32 GB dual rank 2933 MT/s registered DIMMs 2 Xeon Platinum 8280 12 32 GB dual rank 2933 MT/s re
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Appendix B —PowerEdge Server Floating Point Operations per Second Figure 8 Linpack results for the Cascade Lake SP family in a 2-socket platform Figure 9 Linpack results for the Cascade Lake Refresh family in a 2-socket platform https://software.intel.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Appendix C — PowerEdge Server Total Memory Bandwidth Figure 10 Stream results for the Cascade Lake SP family in a 2-socket platform Figure 11 Stream results for the Cascade Lake Refresh family in a 2-socket platform https://www.cs.virginia.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Appendix D- 2S SPECcpu2017 RATE throughput metric results across the Xeon Cascade Lake-SP, Skylake-SP and Cascade Lake Refresh processor families10 Figure 12 Integer Workloads on Cascade Lake-SP and Skylake-SP Figure 13 Floating Point Workloads on Cascade Lake-SP and Skylake-SP 10 SPEC and SPECcpu are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake Figure 14 Integer Workloads on Cascade Lake-SP and Cascade Lake Refresh Figure 15 Floating Point Workloads on Cascade Lake-SP and Cascade Lake Refresh 18
