Re: [Beowulf] First experiences with Broadwell and the Dell M630

2016-06-09 Thread John Hearns
I have 2650-v4 processors in nodes with 128 Gbytes of RAM (not Dell though) should anyone be interested in comparisions. I should say I have 2650-v3 available for comparison also. One thing I found recently, which is no surprise really, when running Openfoam on a 2650-v4, I was looking at the influ

[Beowulf] First experiences with Broadwell and the Dell M630

2016-06-09 Thread Bill Wichser
You'd think that by now I'd know better. Trying to live on the cutting edge. But the promise of 5% over Haswell was quite alluring. We purchased Broadwell 120W 2680v4 chips with 128G of RAM enclosed in the Dell M630 blades. When we finally received power the first thing we did was load a RH