SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_ai_image Result: Super Micro Computer

Super Micro Computer	SPECstorage Solution 2020_ai_image = 50 AI_Jobs
AS-1115SV-WTNR	Overall Response Time = 0.31 msec

Business Metric (AI_Jobs)	Average Latency (msec)	AI_Jobs Ops/Sec	AI_Jobs MB/Sec
5	0.258	2175	488
10	0.263	4350	978
15	0.263	6525	1466
20	0.278	8701	1957
25	0.279	10876	2444
30	0.287	13051	2934
35	0.315	15227	3423
40	0.360	17402	3912
45	0.396	19577	4402
50	0.429	21752	4891

Product and Test Information

AS-1115SV-WTNR
Tested by	Super Micro Computer
Hardware Available	09/2023
Software Available	08/2023
Date Tested	08/2023
License Number	91
Licensee Locations	San Jose, CA

This AS-1115SV-WTNR 1u rackserver is powered by AMD EPYC™ 4th generation 8324P processor with 32 cores. The system provides more processing power when BIOS SMT enables 64 threads. The system has 6x DIMM slots for DDR5 supports up to 4800MT/s speed. It supports 10 2.5" local NVMe drives bays, two m.2 NVMe drives, four USB slots and 800W Titanium Redundant Power supplies.

Solution Under Test Bill of Materials

Item No	Qty	Type	Vendor	Model/Name	Description
1	1	1U Rackserver	Supermicro	AS-1115SV-WTNR	This is a Supermicro 1U Rackmount server powered by single AMD EPYC™ 4th generation 8324P (32cores). This system supports 10 2.5" hot-swap NVME drive bays that are used for this storage testing. The system has 6 DIMMs of type DDR5 with speed upto 4800MT/s.

Configuration Diagrams

Component Software

Hardware Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Item No	Component	Type	Name and Version	Description
1	SUT	Linux	Ubuntu22.04.3	Operating system for load generation and benchmark execution.

Component Name
Parameter Name	Value	Description
N/A	N/A	N/A

Hardware Configuration and Tuning Notes

BIOS Settings: Simultaneous Multi Threading(SMT) enables 64 threads support. Power Determinism was set to 225 for TDP Control and TPT Control.

Software Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Component Name
Parameter Name	Value	Description
vm.swappiness	10	Reduce the VM swappiness

Software Configuration and Tuning Notes

Pass-thru IOMMU was enabled in the OS boot parameter. Added the following line into /etc/default/grub file. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="iommu=pt".

Service SLA Notes

None

Storage and Filesystems

Item No	Description	Data Protection	Stable Storage	Qty
1	SSD SAMSUNG MZQL23T8HCLS-00A07, NVME, Gen4, 3.8TB Disks	RAID0	Stable Storage	10

Number of Filesystems	1
Total Capacity	35T
Filesystem Type	XFS

Filesystem Creation Notes

Software RAID0 was created by running mdadm command on the 10 NVME disks. Filesystem was created using mkfs.xfs command on the RAID0 for benchmarking.

Storage and Filesystem Notes

The XFS filesystem was mounted with noatime,defaults options.

Transport Configuration - Physical

Switches - Physical

Processing Elements - Physical

Item No	Transport Type	Number of Ports Used	Notes
1	N/A	N/A	N/A

Item No	Switch Name	Switch Type	Total Port Count	Used Port Count	Notes
1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Item No	Qty	Type	Location	Description	Processing Function
1	32	CPU Core	San Jose, CA	AMD EPYC™ Gen4 8324P	RAID0, Storage functions

Processing Element Notes

N/A

Memory - Physical

Description	Size in GiB	Number of Instances	Nonvolatile	Total GiB
2Rx4 PC5-4800B-R	64	6	NV	384
Grand Total Memory Gibibytes				384

Memory Notes

System supports 6x DIMMs.

Stable Storage

Solution Under Test Configuration Notes

The benchmark was run on a single Supermicro 1U Rackmount server with local NVMe storage disks. RAID0 config was created using the drives and XFS file system was setup on the RAID0. Ubuntu22.04.3 OS was installed on an internal m.2 NVMe drive. There were no additional external clients or storage devices or network devices were connected to this setup. The new AS-1115SV-WTNR system has AMD EPYC 8324P (32cores) processor and 10 NVMe drives were connected to support lots of disk storage and good storage performance. The testing was done with SMT enabled in BIOS to enable 64 threads for more processing power.

Other Solution Notes

Dataflow

This single server setup has a RAID0 partition created on the local storage drives and XFS file system was created on the RAID. Data gets written directly on to the XFS filesystem and on to the NVMe storage devices.

No other external storage device was used.

Other Notes

The benchmark was run on a single Supermicro AS-1115SV-WTNR server using its local NVMe drives. No other client system, or external storage device or networking device was connected to this test system. Benchmarking was done on Ubuntu22.04.3 using the default kernel 5.15.0-79-generic #86-Ubuntu.

NA: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented. NA: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented. Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.

Other Report Notes

Supermicro™ is a registerd trademark of Super Micro Computer, San Jose, CA 95131. EPYC™ is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, Santa Clara, CA 95054. AMD™ is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_ai_image Result

Performance