SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_swbuild Result

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DELL Technologies SPECstorage Solution 2020_swbuild = 650 Builds
PowerEdge R6715 Overall Response Time = 0.02 msec


Performance

Business
Metric
(Builds)
Average
Latency
(msec)
Builds
Ops/Sec
Builds
MB/Sec
500.01025000203
1000.00950001406
1500.00975002610
2000.009100003813
2500.0111250041017
3000.0141500051220
3500.0141750061423
4000.0212000071627
4500.0242250081830
5000.0292500092034
5500.0382750102237
6000.0403000112440
6500.0413250122644
Performance Graph


Product and Test Information

PowerEdge R6715
Tested byDELL Technologies
Hardware Available09/2024
Software Available09/2024
Date Tested09/2024
License Number6573
Licensee LocationsRound Rock, TX

This Dell PowerEdge R6715 1U Rackmount Server for DataCenter is powered by a AMD EPYC 5th generation 9355P processor. A single 9355P processor provides 32 cpu cores. When SMT is enabled via BIOS, it provides 64 cpu threads. This system is configured with 1.5TB mem and 16 2.5" local NVMe drives for the benchmark run.

Solution Under Test Bill of Materials

Item NoQtyTypeVendorModel/NameDescription
111U RackserverDELL TechnologiesPowerEdge R6715This is a Dell Technologies 1U Rackmount server powered by a AMD EPYC 5th generation 9355P processor. The system supports 24 DIMMs with max mem speed of 5200 MT/s (in 1DPC mode). It supports 2 M.2 drives and up to 16 E3.s drives The system has 2x USB3 ports.

Configuration Diagrams

  1. DELL PowerEdge R6715 Server

Component Software

Item NoComponentTypeName and VersionDescription
1SUTLinuxUbuntu 24.04.1Operating system for load generation and benchmark execution.

Hardware Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Component Name
Parameter NameValueDescription
N/AN/AN/A

Hardware Configuration and Tuning Notes

BIOS Settings: Simultaneous Multi Threading(SMT) was enabled to provide 64 cpu threads support.

Software Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Component Name
Parameter NameValueDescription
vm.swappiness10Reduce 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 NoDescriptionData ProtectionStable StorageQty
1SSD Dell NVMe PM1743 RI E3.S 3.84TB, Gen5 DisksRAID0Stable Storage15
2SSD NVMe OS DiskEXT4Stable Storage1
Number of Filesystems2
Total Capacity60T
Filesystem TypeEXT4

Filesystem Creation Notes

Software RAID0 was created by running mdadm command on the local 15 NVMe disks. mkfs.ext4 command was used for creating EXT4 file system for this benchmark run.

Storage and Filesystem Notes

The ext4 filesystem was mounted with defaults,noatime options.

Transport Configuration - Physical

Item NoTransport TypeNumber of Ports UsedNotes
1N/AN/AN/A

Transport Configuration Notes

None

Switches - Physical

Item NoSwitch NameSwitch TypeTotal Port CountUsed Port CountNotes
1N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Processing Elements - Physical

Item NoQtyTypeLocationDescriptionProcessing Function
11CPUSUTAMD EPYC Gen5 9355PRAID0, Storage functions

Processing Element Notes

N/A

Memory - Physical

DescriptionSize in GiBNumber of InstancesNonvolatileTotal GiB
2Rx8 PC5-6400B-R12812V1536
Grand Total Memory Gibibytes1536

Memory Notes

System has 24 DIMM slots and only 12 DIMM slots were used for the benchmark run.

Stable Storage

The EXT4 file system provides journaling support for filesystem protection.

Solution Under Test Configuration Notes

The benchmark was ran on a single PowerEdge R6715 server with local NVMe storage disks. RAID0 config was created using the drives and EXT4 file system was setup on the RAID0. Ubuntu 24.04.1 OS was installed on an internal NVMe drive. There were no additional external clients or storage devices or network devices were connected to this setup. The new PowerEdge R6715 system has a AMD EPYC 9355P (32cores) processor and 16 NVMe drives were connected to support lots of disk storage and good storage performance. The testing was done with SMT enabled in BIOS, providing 64 cpu threads for more processing power.

Other Solution Notes

None

Dataflow

This single server setup has a RAID0 partition created on the local storage drives and EXT4 file system was created on the RAID. Data gets written directly on to the EXT4 filesystem and on to the NVMe storage devices. No other external storage device was used.

Other Notes

The benchmark was ran on a single DELL Technologies PowerEdge R6715 server using its local NVMe drives. This benchmark was tested on Ubuntu 24.04.1 OS with kernel 6.8.0-45-generic. No other client system, or external storage device or networking device was connected to this test system. None of the components used to perform the test were patched with Spectre or Meltdown patches (CVE-2017-5754, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715). Vulnerabilities: Gather data sampling: Not affected Itlb multihit: Not affected L1tf: Not affected Mds: Not affected Meltdown: Not affected Mmio stale data: Not affected Reg file data sampling: Not affected Retbleed: Not affected Spec rstack overflow: Not affected Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Spectre v2: Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB conditional; STIBP always-on; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affected Srbds: Not affected Tsx async abort: Not affected

Other Report Notes

DELL is a registered trademark of DELL Technologies, 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas 78682. AMD is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, Santa Clara, CA 95054. EPYC is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, Santa Clara, CA 95054.


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