Intel® Xeon® Performance Tuning and Solutions

Published: 03/19/2021

Last Updated: 08/31/2021

AI | Data Analytics | Databases | HPC | Media | Web-Tier | Virtualization

These tuning guides provide guidance on the BIOS, Operating System and workload/benchmark settings to get the most out of Intel platforms with server workloads. These guides are designed for people who are already familiar with the workload and are looking for system settings that will improve performance. These workload tuning guides provides a launch point for developers and systems integrators to leverage for further tuning.

AI

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Deep Learning Optimization (English)	Download
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OpenVino	Download

Data Analytics

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Spark*	Download

Databases

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MongoDB*	Download
Open Source Database Tuning (MySQL, PostgreSQL)	Download
Redis* (English)	Download
Redis* (Chinese)	Download
RocksDB* (English)	Download
RocksDB* (Chinese)	Download (Coming Soon!)
RocksDB* db_bench	Download
Microsoft* SQL Server*	Download

HPC

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HPC Cluster Tuning	Download
NAMD	n/a
Relion*	Download

Media

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Scalable Video / HEVC Transcode	Download
Data compression with Intel SW	Download

Web-Tier

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NGINX* - Crypto (English)	Download
NGINX* - Crypto (Chinese)	Download
NGINX* - QAT (English)	Download
NGINX* - QAT (Chinese)	Download
WordPress*	Download
Java* developer guide	Download

Virtualization

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KVM*	Download

AI workloads

General Intel® Architecture tuning guides

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