ThinkSystem SR665 V3 Sets 4 World Records with New SPEChpc 2021 Tiny Benchmark Result

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 V3 has set four performance world records with new 2-socket results of the SPEChpc 2021 Tiny benchmark.

These new benchmark results, published in new SPEC reports on November 10, 2022, demonstrate that the ThinkSystem SR665 V3 continues Lenovo’s leadership with outstanding performance for the server industry.

The SR665 V3, using pure MPI as node-level parallelization model, has achieved the following scores:

• SPEChpc_2021_tny_base = 11.5
• SPEChpc_2021_tny_peak = 11.5

The SR665 V3, using MPI+OpenMP as node-level parallelization model, has achieved the following scores:

• SPEChpc_2021_tny_base = 13.9
• SPEChpc_2021_tny_peak = 14.2

The SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark suite is the industry standard to evaluate hardware-based accelerator devices and the performance of parallel computing workloads. To support heterogeneity system architecture, the SPEChpc 2021 benchmark supports multiple programming models:

• Pure MPI
• MPI+OpenMP
• MPI+OpenACC
• MPI+OpenMP with target offload

By properly configuring the CPU based system according to NUMA architecture, the MPI+OpenMP can reduce communication needs and memory consumption in some sub-benchmark of SPEChpc 2021, hence the performance improvement.

The ThinkSystem SR665 V3 server was configured as follows:

• 2x AMD EPYC 9654 processors (96 cores, 2.40 GHz)
• 768 GB memory (24x 32GB RDIMMs at 4800MHz)
• 480 GB 2.5-inch SSD
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6

The results are current as of November 10, 2022.

To view details of the results, see the following SPEC web pages:

SPEChpc using the pure MPI model:
https://spec.org/hpc2021/results/res2022q4/hpc2021-20221016-00134.html

SPEChpc using the MPI+OpenMP model:
https://spec.org/hpc2021/results/res2022q4/hpc2021-20221016-00135.html

To view all SPEChpc 2021 results, go to
https://spec.org/hpc2021/results/

The ThinkSystem SR665 V3 is a 2S 2U rack server built with the performance and flexibility to manage a complex set of workloads like data management, analytics, virtualization, cloud, and AI. The 256 cores of the dual 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors with up to 160 PCIe lanes and up to 6TB of the latest DDR5 memory, maximize the performance of this 2U server.

The SR665 V3 is designed to support today’s infrastructure and easily scale to prepare for next gen workloads. Multiple drive options using SAS/SATA and NVMe with hot-swap capabilities and XClarity system management software enable changes to be made quickly with ease. The versatile design doesn’t stop at storage, the SR665 V3 includes support for multiple options for GPU and PCIe to satisfy graphics, speed, and budget requirements.

High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are getting built with an increased level of heterogeneity. The numerous types of accelerators bring in tremendous extra computing power, while at the same time introduce big challenges in performance evaluation and characterization. More complications are added to the problem when multiple parallel and accelerator programming models have been developed with each only supporting a subset of the computing devices.

The SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suite address these challenges by providing a set of application benchmark suites using a comprehensive measure of real-world performance for the state-of-the-art HPC systems. They offer well-selected science and engineering codes that are representative of HPC workloads and are portable across CPU and accelerators, along with certain fair comparative performance metrics.

To learn more about solutions for HPC applications, contact your Lenovo Sales Representative or visit https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/solutions/hpc/

To find out more about SPEC, visit https://www.spec.org

To learn more about the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 V3 server, visit the SR665 V3 product web page:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/servers-storage/servers/racks/thinksystem-sr645/77xx7sr352s