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Table 3 System characteristics

From: Investigating performance metrics for container-based HPC environments using x86 and OpenPOWER systems

Features Specifications

x86 System

OpenPOWER System

Processor Architecture

x86_64

ppc64le

Processor Model

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3

POWER8 (raw), altivec supported

No. of cores per socket

8

8

Core clock frequency (GHz)

2.400

3.857

Floating Point/clock/core

16

08

Peak Perf./core (GFlops)

38.400

30.856

L1 cache size(KB)

32+32

32+64

L2 cache size(KB)

256

512

L3 cache size(MB)

20

08

Local memory/Node (GBs)

094

128

Interconnect

10 GB/s ethernet

10 GB/s ethernet

Network Topology

Flat

Flat

Operating System

CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (AltArch)

Fortran Compiler

INTEL-FORTRAN-17.0.4-196

IBM XL FORTRAN V15.1.5.1

C Compiler

INTEL COMPILER-17.0.4-196

GCC- 4.8.5

Math Library

Intel\(\circledR\) Math Kernel Library 2017

ESSL- 5.4.0

MPI

mpich2-1.5

mpich2-1.5

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