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Sandy Bridge nodes
The cluster was upgraded to contain 192 nodes with dual socket Intel Xeon E5-2670, 2.6 GHz "Sandy Bridge".
- 16 cores per node in 2 sockets, 32 threads, AVX support
- 32GB of DDR3 1600 Mhz memory
- 4 memory channels per CPU, total of >70GB/s memory bandwidth
- Mellanox QDR ConnectX-3 Infiniband HCA, connected with PCIe-gen3 bus, 2:1 overcommitted in the switch fabric
main user benefits through hardware compared to Nehalem nodes
- twice the core number per node
- twice the memory bandwidth per node
- higher IB bandwidth and throughput
- 2.66 times the memory per node, 30% more memory per core
- ~same CPU throughput per core with 2.6 GHz instead of 2.8 GHz.
new OS version offers
- AVX support (4 DP element vector instructions)
- transparent huge pages (less TLB misses for large memory blocks without any need to change code)
Remarks
- use -mAVX switches to generate best code with compilers, AVX is supported by Intel and GCC and ortland compilers, see details in manuals
- frontends are nehalem type CPUs, if compiler uses autodetection if no architecture switch is specified, you will get non-optimal code!
- redhat 6.2 based scientific linux 6.2 which is used on the new nodes shows performance degradation if SMT (hyperthreading) is enabled - which is the case - and MPI is used without using the additional threads. To get best performance, use CPU pinning.
- for openmpi use mpirun -bind-to-core
- for HP-MPI/Platform MPI use mpirun -cpu_bind=rank
- for intel MPI pinning is on by default