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The Raptor Talos II test system was configured with the aforementioned dual eight core IBM POWER9 CPUs yielding 64 threads, 256GB of system memory, a 500GB HDD (what they had available, but I/O testing thus isn't a focus for today's tests), and an AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 graphics card. The POWER9 CPUs clock up to 3.80GHz.
The system was loaded with Debian Testing and using the Linux 4.16 PPC64LE kernel. The Linux 4.15 kernel and newer currently support the Talos II. Our Xeon/EPYC testing was done with Debian Testing as well using its GCC 7.3 stock compiler, EXT4 file-system, and upgrading to the Linux 4.16 kernel.
The other x86 server/workstation systems I had locally for comparison to these initial POWER9 benchmark numbers were:
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 - The Tyan S7106 1U barebones with two Xeon Gold 6138 processors yielding a combined 40 cores / 80 threads, 96GB of RAM, and Samsung 850 EVO 256GB. Xeon Gold 6138 processors have a 2.0GHz base frequency and 3.7GHz turbo frequency.
AMD EPYC 7551 - The Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 with an AMD EPYC 7551, which is 32 cores / 64 threads at a 2.0GHz base clock frequency, 2.55GHz all core boost speed, and 3.0GHz maximum boost clock speed. This system had 32GB of memory and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics.
AMD EPYC 7601 - The TYAN B8026T70AE24HR with an AMD EPYC 7601, which is 32 cores / 64 threads with a 2.2GHz base frequency, 2.7GHz all core boost frequency, and 3.2GHz maximum boost clock speed. This system had 128GB of DDR4 and a 280GB Intel 900p Optane SSD.
Those were the systems available for this initial round of testing against the 64-thread Talos II Workstation while all systems were on Debian Testing with the Linux 4.16 kernel. This is just the raw performance results due to not being able to deliver performance-per-Watt metrics at this time from the Talos II.
The Raptor Talos II test system was configured with the aforementioned dual eight core IBM POWER9 CPUs yielding 64 threads, 256GB of system memory, a 500GB HDD (what they had available, but I/O testing thus isn't a focus for today's tests), and an AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 graphics card. The POWER9 CPUs clock up to 3.80GHz.
The system was loaded with Debian Testing and using the Linux 4.16 PPC64LE kernel. The Linux 4.15 kernel and newer currently support the Talos II. Our Xeon/EPYC testing was done with Debian Testing as well using its GCC 7.3 stock compiler, EXT4 file-system, and upgrading to the Linux 4.16 kernel.
The other x86 server/workstation systems I had locally for comparison to these initial POWER9 benchmark numbers were:
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 - The Tyan S7106 1U barebones with two Xeon Gold 6138 processors yielding a combined 40 cores / 80 threads, 96GB of RAM, and Samsung 850 EVO 256GB. Xeon Gold 6138 processors have a 2.0GHz base frequency and 3.7GHz turbo frequency.
AMD EPYC 7551 - The Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 with an AMD EPYC 7551, which is 32 cores / 64 threads at a 2.0GHz base clock frequency, 2.55GHz all core boost speed, and 3.0GHz maximum boost clock speed. This system had 32GB of memory and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics.
AMD EPYC 7601 - The TYAN B8026T70AE24HR with an AMD EPYC 7601, which is 32 cores / 64 threads with a 2.2GHz base frequency, 2.7GHz all core boost frequency, and 3.2GHz maximum boost clock speed. This system had 128GB of DDR4 and a 280GB Intel 900p Optane SSD.
Those were the systems available for this initial round of testing against the 64-thread Talos II Workstation while all systems were on Debian Testing with the Linux 4.16 kernel. This is just the raw performance results due to not being able to deliver performance-per-Watt metrics at this time from the Talos II.