SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_ai_image Result: Super Micro Computer

Super Micro Computer	SPECstorage Solution 2020_ai_image = 100 AI_Jobs
SYS-121H-TNR	Overall Response Time = 0.48 msec

Business Metric (AI_Jobs)	Average Latency (msec)	AI_Jobs Ops/Sec	AI_Jobs MB/Sec
5	0.461	2175	489
10	0.464	4350	978
15	0.502	6525	1467
20	0.479	8701	1957
25	0.514	10876	2445
30	0.484	13051	2934
35	0.461	15226	3421
40	0.456	17402	3911
45	0.470	19577	4402
50	0.468	21752	4892
55	0.477	23928	5381
60	0.473	26103	5870
65	0.470	28278	6356
70	0.476	30454	6846
75	0.474	32629	7337
80	0.481	34804	7826
85	0.480	36979	8314
90	0.490	39155	8802
95	0.512	41330	9290
100	0.529	43505	9781

Product and Test Information

SYS-121H-TNR
Tested by	Super Micro Computer
Hardware Available	11/2023
Software Available	11/2023
Date Tested	11/2023
License Number	91
Licensee Locations	San Jose, CA, USA

The SYS-121H-TNR is 1U rackmount server powered by dual Intel Xeon 5th Gen Emerald Rapids 8592+ processor with 128 cores (2x 64 cores). The server provides more processing power with Hyper-Threading enabled by default in BIOS to enable 256 threads. The system has 32 DIMM slots for DDR5 supports up to 4800MHz speed. The server supports 12x 2.5" hot-swap NVMe drives bays, 2x internal M.2 NVMe drive slots and 2x 1200W Redundant Titanium Level power supplies. The server has hot-plug capability to provide more serviceability and availability.

Solution Under Test Bill of Materials

Item No	Qty	Type	Vendor	Model/Name	Description
1	1	1U Rackmount server	Super Micro Computer	SYS-121H-TNR	This is a Supermicro 1U Rackmount server powered by dual Intel 5th generation 8592+ processor (2x 64 cores). This system supports 12x 2.5" hot-swap NVME drive bays that are used for this storage testing. The system has 32 DIMMs of type DDR5 with speed upto 4800GHz.

Configuration Diagrams

Component Software

Hardware Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Item No	Component	Type	Name and Version	Description
1	SUT	Linux	RHEL9.2	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: Hyper-Threading enables 256 threads support.

Software Configuration and Tuning - Physical

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

Software Configuration and Tuning Notes

None

Service SLA Notes

None.

Storage and Filesystems

Item No	Description	Data Protection	Stable Storage	Qty
1	SSD KIOXIA KCD8XPUG1T92, NVME, Gen5, 1.92TB Disks	RAID-0 volume	Stable Storage	12

Number of Filesystems	1
Total Capacity	20.96 TiB
Filesystem Type	xfs

Filesystem Creation Notes

Software RAID-0 was created by running mdadm command on the 12 NVME disks. Filesystem was created using mkfs.xfs command on the RAID-0 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	2	CPU	SUT	Intel Xeon 5th Gen Emerald Rapids 8592+	RAID-0, Storage functions

Processing Element Notes

N/A.

Memory - Physical

Description	Size in GiB	Number of Instances	Nonvolatile	Total GiB
System memory in storage node	32	32	NV	1024
Grand Total Memory Gibibytes				1024

Memory Notes

System supports 32 DIMMs.

Stable Storage

Solution Under Test Configuration Notes

The benchmark was run on a single Supermicro 1U Rackmount server with local NVMe storage disks. RAID-0 config was created using the drives and XFS file system was setup on the RAID-0. RHEL-9.2 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 SYS-121H-TNR system has dual Intel Xeon 5th Gen Emerald Rapids 8592+ processor (2x 64 cores) and 12 NVMe drives were connected to support lots of disk storage and good storage performance. The testing was done with Hyper-Threading enabled in BIOS to enable 256 threads for more processing power.

SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_ai_image Result

Performance