Measurement Cluster

Our Measurement Cluster

Our Measurement Cluster runs on NOP Linux changes → and is the driver behind our Hosted Service.

We have the following machines available for running measurements in our cluster:

CO2 Profiling (DVFS ON, TB ON, HT ON) - Esprimo P956
- Use Case: For profiling of a software to get a value for an off-the-shelf Ubuntu system with default configuration
- Vendor: Fujitsu ESPRIMO P956
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (NOP Linux)
- Type: Single-Tenant Server
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 4
- Hyper-Threading: N/A
- Turbo Boost: Off
- DVFS: On
- C-States: All
- Memory: 16 GB
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: MCP39F511N
- Special: Blue Angel compatible for Server applications

CO2 Benchmarking (DVFS OFF, TB OFF, HT OFF) - TX1330 M2
- Use Case: For benchmarking of a software where configuration is tuned for reproducability
- Vendor: Fujitsu TX1330 M2
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (NOP Linux)
- Type: Single-Tenant Server
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240L v5 @ 2.10GHz
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 4
- Hyper-Threading: Off
- Turbo Boost: Off
- DVFS: Off (Fixed to 2.1 GHz)
- C-States: C0 only
- Memory: 8 GB
- Sample measurement with machine specs
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: MCP39F511N
- Special: Blue Angel compatible for Client-Server and Server applications

Micro Benchmarking (DVFS OFF, TB OFF, HT OFF) - TX1330 M2
- Use Case: For micro benchmarking of a software where configuration is tuned for reproducability. Reporters are set to 1ms sampling_rate and limited to RAPL CPU / Memory
- Vendor: Fujitsu TX1330 M2
- Ubuntu 24.04 (NOP Linux)
- Type: Single-Tenant Server
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240L v5 @ 2.10GHz
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 4
- Hyper-Threading: Off
- Turbo Boost: Off
- DVFS: Off (Fixed to 2.1 GHz)
- C-States: C0 only
- Memory: 8 GB
- Sample measurement with machine specs
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: None

GUI/Desktop Applications (DVFS ON, TB ON, HT OFF) - TX1330 M3
- Use Case: For profiling of a GUI / Desktop software that uses X11 or Wayland window management systems
- Vendor: Fujitsu TX1330 M3
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (default) with Wayland Window manager
- Type: Single-Tenant Server
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v6 @ 3.00GHz
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 4
- Hyper-Threading: N/A
- Turbo Boost: On
- DVFS: Off (Fixed to 3.0 GHz)
- C-States: C0 only
- Memory: 16 GB
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: MCP39F511N / IPMI
- Special: Blue Angel compatible for Client-Server, Server and Desktop applications

ML/AI Profiling (DVFS ON, TB ON, HT OFF) - GTX-1080 - [PREMIUM]
- Use Case: For GPU measurements and AI training measurements
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (NOP Linux)
- Type: Desktop-PC
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600K CPU @ 3.70GHz
- Cores: 6
- Threads: 6
- Hyper-Threading: N/A
- Turbo Boost: On
- Memory: 32 GB
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1080
  - Installed CUDA version: 12.2
  - NVIDIA kernel driver version 535.274.02
  - VRAM: 8 GB
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: MCP39F511N & IPMI
- Special: Blue Angel compatible for Server applications

Palit GPU - (Phased out Early 2025)
- Use Case: For GPU measurements and AI training measurements
- OS: Ubuntu 22.04 (NOP Linux)
- Type: Desktop-PC
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 8
- Hyper-Threading: On
- Turbo Boost: On
- Memory: 12 GB
- Graphics: Palit GF110 (GeForce GTX 570)
  - Installed CUDA version: 12
  - NVIDIA kernel driver version 390
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: MCP39F511N & IPMI

Quanta Leopard-DDR3 - (Phased out Early 2025)
- Use Case: Heavy parallelized workloads / HPC
- Type: 48-Thread Multi-Tenant Server
- OS: Ubuntu 22.04 (default)
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2678 v3 @ 2.50GHz (2x)
- Cores: 24
- Threads: 48
- Hyper-Threading: On
- Turbo Boost: Off
- Memory: 32 GB
- Sample measurement with machine specs
- Metrics Provider for Machine Power: IPMI
- Special: SoftAWERE compatible