Developer Guide for Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library for Windows*

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Running the Intel® Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark

To run the Intel® Distribution for LINPACK Benchmark on multiple nodes or on one node with multiple MPI processes, you need to use MPI and either modify
HPL.dat
 or use Ease-of-use Command-line Parameters. The following example describes how to run the dynamically-linked prebuilt Intel® Distribution for LINPACK Benchmark binary using the script provided. To run other binaries, adjust the steps accordingly.
  1. Load the necessary environment variables for the Intel MPI Library and Intel® compiler:
    <compiler directory>
    \
    env
    \
    vars.
    bat
    <mpi directory>
    \
    env
    \
    vars.
    bat
  2. In
    HPL.dat
    , set the problem size
    N
     to 10000. Because this setting is for a test run, the problem size should be small.
  3. For better performance, enable non-uniform memory access (NUMA) on your system and configure to run an MPI process for each NUMA socket as explained below.
    High-bandwidth Multi-Channel Dynamic Random Access Memory (MCDRAM) on the second-generation Intel® Xeon® Phi processors may appear to be a NUMA node. However, because there are no CPUs on this node, do not run an MPI process for it.
    • Refer to your BIOS settings to enable NUMA on your system.
    • Set the following variables at the top of the
      runme_intel64_dynamic
      .bat
       script according to your cluster configuration:
      MPI_PROC_NUM
      The total number of MPI processes.
      MPI_PER_NODE
      The number of MPI processes per each cluster node.
    • In the
      HPL.dat
       file, set the parameters
      Ps
       and
      Qs
       so that
      Ps
       *
      Qs
       equals the number of MPI processes. For example, for 2 processes, set
      Ps
       to 1 and
      Qs
       to 2. Alternatively, leave the
      HPL.dat
       file as is and launch with
      -p
       and
      -q
       command-line parameters.
  4. Execute
    runme_intel64_dynamic
    .bat
     script:
    runme_intel64_dynamic
    .bat
  5. Rerun the test increasing the size of the problem until the matrix size uses about 80% of the available memory. To do this, either modify
    Ns
     in line 6 of
    HPL.dat
     or use the
    -n
     command-line parameter:
    • For 16 GB:
      40000 Ns
    • For 32 GB:
      56000 Ns
    • For 64 GB:
      83000 Ns
Product and Performance Information
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.
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Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.