December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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7.6. Benchmarks
In this section, we discuss industry standard benchmarks performed on pSeries running Linux.
7.6.1. System configurations
Hardware
Eight p655 nodes (lp01-08) interconnected by the Myrinet 2000 switch. Each node has eight 1.1 GHz POWER4 processors, private 32 KB L1 Data and 64 KB L1 Instruction cache per processor, 4×1.44 MB L2 cache, 32 GB memory, two Myrinet D-cards.
Two of the nodes (lp07, lp08) have direct peer-to-peer Gigabit Ethernet connection. The schematic diagram is shown in Figure 7-2 on page 318.
Figure 7-2. Node configuration for HPC case study
Software
SuSE SLES 8 (ppc) Linux version 2.4.19-ul1-ppc64-SMP
GCC ...