AMD Linux Tuning Guide

Sujets

• AMD
• LINUX
• Tuning

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• Publié par: guilhem.lettron
• Publié le: 13 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 112
• Licence : Tous droits réservés
• Langue: English

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™AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors
Linux Tuning Guide© 2012 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Contents
1.0 Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
1.1 Intended Audience ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
1.2 AMD’s New Core Architecture Overview ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
1.3 Shared Resources …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
1.4 Dedicated Resources …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
1.5 Floating Point Capabilities …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7
2.0 Getting Started …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8
2.1 Physical Memory Confguration Check …………………………………………………………………………………………………………8
2.2 BIOS Confguration Summary ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8
2.3 Check NUMA Confguration …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9
2.4 STREAM to Verify Confguration ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
2.5 Easy STREAM Using GCC Compiler ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
2.6 High Performance STREAM Using AMD Open64 Compiler ……………………………………………………………… 12
2.7 Run High Performance Linpack 14
3.0 Operating System and Software Choices ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15
3.1 HPC Example OS & Compiler Confgurations …………………………………………………………………………………………… 15
3.2 Linux Kernel Versions and Distributions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16
3.3 Check Confguration After Installing Linux ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 17
3.4 Compiler Choices ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 17
3.5 Compiling for AMD’s New Core Architecture Instructions ………………………………………………………………… 18
3.6 Libraries ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 19
3.7 Other Libraries and Tools …&#