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=== AMD System Setting ===
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systems settings that are required to configure the system for AMD Instinct™ accelerators and to improve the system to obtain optimal performance of the GPUs.<ref>https://docs.amd.com/bundle/AMD-Instinct-MI100-High-Performance-Computing-and-Tuning-Guide-v5.1/page/System_Settings.html</ref>
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== Overview ==
 
HPC System Setting에 대한 기술 문서입니다.
 
=== Summary ===
 
* 무엇인가? - HPC System Setting
* 왜 필요한가? - HPC 및 서버 환경에서 필수 개념
* 언제 사용하는가? - 서버 구성, 성능 튜닝, 문제 해결 시
 
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== Purpose ==
 
이 문서가 존재하는 이유
 
* Goal: HPC System Setting에 대한 기술 정보 제공
* Scope: HPC System Setting의 개념, 사용법, 설정
* Non-goals: 다른 주제로의 확장


“High Performance Computing (HPC) Tuning Guide for AMD EPYC™ Processors”<ref>https://www.amd.com/en/search/site-search.html#q=High%20Performance%20Computing%20(HPC)%20Tuning%20Guide%20for%20AMD%20EPYC</ref>
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•        Core C states
== Key Concepts ==


•        AMD-PCI-UTIL (on AMD EPYC™ 7002 series processors)
{| class="wikitable"
! Concept
! Description
! Related
|-
| HPC System Setting
| HPC/서버 환경에서 중요한 기술 개념
| [[Linux]], [[Server]]
|}


•        IOMMU (if needed)
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== Detailed Explanation ==


systems settings that are required to configure the system for AMD Instinct™ accelerators and to improve the system to obtain optimal performance of the GPUs.<ref>https://docs.amd.com/bundle/AMD-Instinct-MI100-High-Performance-Computing-and-Tuning-Guide-v5.1/page/System_Settings.html</ref>
“High Performance Computing (HPC) Tuning Guide for AMD EPYC™ Processors”<ref>https://www.amd.com/en/search/site-search.html#q=High%20Performance%20Computing%20(HPC)%20Tuning%20Guide%20for%20AMD%20EPYC</ref>
•        Core C states
•        AMD-PCI-UTIL (on AMD EPYC™ 7002 series processors)
•        IOMMU (if needed)
Recommended settings for the system [[BIOS]]
Recommended settings for the system [[BIOS]]
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|'''Advanced'''  
|'''Advanced'''  
'''  |- PCI Subsystem Settings'''
'''  |- PCI Subsystem Settings'''
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Above 4G Decoding
Above 4G Decoding
|
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Enabled
Enabled
|GPU Large BAR [[Support]]
|GPU Large BAR [[Support]]
|-
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- AMD CBS</nowiki>'''
'''  |- CPU Common Options'''
'''  |- Performance'''
|Global C-state Control
CCD/Core/Thread Enablement
  |- SMT Control
|Auto
Accept
Disable
|Global Core C-States
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- DF Common Options</nowiki>'''
'''  |- Memory Addressing'''
|[[NUMA]] nodes per socket
Memory interleaving
|NPS1,2,4
Auto
|NUMA Nodes (NPS)
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- Link</nowiki>'''
|4-link xGMI max speed
3-link xGMI max speed
|18Gbps
18Gbps
|Set AMD CPU xGMI speed to highest rate supported
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- NBIO Common Options</nowiki>'''
|IOMMU
[[PCIe]] Ten Bit Tag Support
Preferred IO
Preferred IO Bus
Enhanced Preferred IO Mode
|Disabled
Enable
Manual
“Use lspci to find pci device id”
Enable
|
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- SMU Common Options</nowiki>'''
|Determinism Control
Determinism Slider
cTDP Control
cTDP
Package Power Limit Control
Package Power Limit
xGMI Link Width Control
xGMI Force Link Width
xGMI Force Link Width Control
APBDIS
DF Cstates
Fixed SOC Pstate
|Manual
Power
Manual
240
Manual
240
Manual
2
Force
1
Auto
P0
|Set cTDP to 240W
Set Package Power Limit to 240W
Set AMD CPU xGMI width to 16 bits
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- UMC Common Options</nowiki>'''
'''  |- DDR4 Common'''
'''Options'''
'''  |-Enforce POR''' 
'''  |- DRAM Controller Configuration'''
'''  |- DRAM Power Options'''
|
<nowiki>|- Overclock</nowiki>
<nowiki>|- Memory Clock Speed</nowiki>
Power Down Enable
|
Accept
Enabled
1600MHz
Disabled
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Set to max Memory Speed, if using 3200MHz DIMM’s: 1600MHz.
RAM Power Down
|-
|'''<nowiki>  |- Security</nowiki>'''
|TSME
|Disabled
|Memory Encryption
|}
=== NBIO Link Clock Frequency ===
The NBIOs (4x per AMD EPYC™ processor) are the serializers/deserializers (also known as “SerDes”) that convert and prepare the I/O signals for the processor’s 128 external I/O interface lanes (32 per NBIO).
LCLK (short for link clock frequency) controls the link speed of the internal bus that connects the NBIO silicon with the data fabric. All data between the processor and its PCIe lanes flow to the data fabric based on these LCLK frequency settings. The link clock frequency of the NBIO components need to be forced to the maximum frequency for optimal PCIe performance.
For AMD EPYC™ 7002 series processors, this setting cannot be modified via configuration options in the server BIOS alone. Instead, the AMD-IOPM-UTIL (see Section 3.2.3) must be run at every server boot to disable Dynamic Power Management for all PCIe Root Complexes and NBIOs within the system and to lock the logic into the highest performance operational mode.
For AMD EPYC™ 7003 series processors, configuring all NBIOs to be in “Enhanced Preferred I/O” mode is sufficient to enable highest link clock frequency for the NBIO components.
=== Memory Configuration ===
For the memory addressing modes, especially the number of NUMA nodes per socket/processor ('''NPS'''), the recommended setting is to follow the guidance of the “High Performance Computing (HPC) Tuning Guide for AMD EPYC™ Processors” <ref>https://www.amd.com/en/search/site-search.html#q=High%20Performance%20Computing%20(HPC)%20Tuning%20Guide%20for%20AMD%20EPYC</ref> to provide the optimal configuration for host side computation.
If the system is set to one NUMA domain per socket/processor ('''NPS1'''), bidirectional copy bandwidth between host memory and GPU memory may be slightly higher (up to about 16% more) than with four NUMA domains per socket/processor (NPS4). For memory bandwidth sensitive applications using MPI, NPS4 is recommended. For applications that are not optimized for NUMA locality, NPS1 is the recommended setting.
== Operating System Settings ==
=== CPU Core State - ‘C States’ ===
There are several Core-States, or C-states that an AMD EPYC CPU can idle within:
•        '''C0''': active. This is the active state while running an application.
•        '''C1''': idle
•        '''C2''': idle and power gated. This is a deeper sleep state and will have a greater latency when moving back to the C0 state, compared to when the CPU is coming out of C1.
Disabling C2 is important for running with a high performance, low-latency network. '''To disable power-gating on all cores run the following on [[Linux]] systems:'''
<code>$ cpupower idle-set -d 2</code>
Note that the cpupower tool must be installed, as it is not part of the base packages of most Linux® distributions. The package needed varies with the respective Linux distribution.
'''For Ubuntu'''
<code>$ sudo apt install linux-tools-common</code>
=== AMD-IOPM-UTIL ===
This section applies to AMD EPYC™ 7002 processors to optimize advanced Dynamic Power Management (DPM) in the I/O logic (see NBIO description above) for performance. Certain I/O workloads may benefit from disabling this power management. This utility disables DPM for all PCI-e root complexes in the system and locks the logic into the highest performance operational mode.
Disabling I/O DPM will reduce the latency and/or improve the throughput of low-bandwidth messages for PCI-e InfiniBand NICs and GPUs. Other workloads with low-bandwidth bursty PCI-e I/O characteristics may benefit as well if multiple such PCI-e devices are installed in the system.
The actions of the utility do not persist across reboots. There is no need to change any existing firmware settings when using this utility. The “Preferred I/O” and “Enhanced Preferred I/O” settings should remain unchanged at enabled.<pre>
The recommended method to use the utility is either to create a system start-up script, for example, a one-shot systemd service unit, or run the utility when starting up a job scheduler on the system. The installer packages (see Power Management Utility at https://developer.amd.com/iopm-utility/) will create and enable a systemd service unit for you. This service unit is configured to run in one-shot mode. This means that even when the service unit runs as expected, the status of the service unit will show inactive. This is the expected behavior when the utility runs normally. If the service unit shows failed, the utility did not run as expected. The output in either case can be shown with the systemctl status command.
Stopping the service unit has no effect since the utility does not leave anything running. To undo the effects of the utility, disable the service unit with the systemctl disable command and reboot the system.


The utility does not have any command-line options, and it must be run with super-user permissions.
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=== Systems with 256 CPU Threads - IOMMU Configuration ===
== Best Practices ==
For systems that have 256 logical CPU cores or more (e.g., 64-core AMD EPYC™ 7763 in a dual-socket configuration and SMT enabled), setting the IOMMU configuration to “disabled” can limit the number of available logical cores to 255. The reason is that the Linux® kernel disables [[X2APIC]] in this case and falls back to APIC, which can only enumerate a maximum of 255 (logical) cores.


If SMT is enabled by setting “CCD/Core/Thread Enablement > SMT Control” to “enable”, the following steps can be applied to the system to enable all (logical) cores of the system:
* 최신 버전 사용 권장
* 공식 문서 참고
* 테스트 환경에서 먼저 검증


•        In the server BIOS, set IOMMU to “Enabled”.
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•        When configuring the Grub boot loader, add the following arguments for the Linux kernel:
== References ==


amd_iommu=on iommu=pt
* [https://wiki.hpcmate.com HPC System Setting]


•        Update Grub to use the modified configuration:
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<code>sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg</code>


== Related Pages ==


•        Reboot the system.
* [[Linux]]
* [[Server]]
* [[Hardware]]
* [[Network]]


•        Verify IOMMU passthrough mode by inspecting the kernel log via dmesg:
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==References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Server]]
[[Category:Server]]
[[Category:Configuration]]
[[Category:Configuration]]

Revision as of 15:16, 16 July 2026

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Overview

HPC System Setting에 대한 기술 문서입니다.

Summary

  • 무엇인가? - HPC System Setting
  • 왜 필요한가? - HPC 및 서버 환경에서 필수 개념
  • 언제 사용하는가? - 서버 구성, 성능 튜닝, 문제 해결 시

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Purpose

이 문서가 존재하는 이유

  • Goal: HPC System Setting에 대한 기술 정보 제공
  • Scope: HPC System Setting의 개념, 사용법, 설정
  • Non-goals: 다른 주제로의 확장

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Key Concepts

Concept Description Related
HPC System Setting HPC/서버 환경에서 중요한 기술 개념 Linux, Server

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Detailed Explanation

systems settings that are required to configure the system for AMD Instinct™ accelerators and to improve the system to obtain optimal performance of the GPUs.[1] “High Performance Computing (HPC) Tuning Guide for AMD EPYC™ Processors”[2] •        Core C states •        AMD-PCI-UTIL (on AMD EPYC™ 7002 series processors) •        IOMMU (if needed) Recommended settings for the system BIOS

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Best Practices

  • 최신 버전 사용 권장
  • 공식 문서 참고
  • 테스트 환경에서 먼저 검증

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References

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Related Pages

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BIOS Setting Location Parameter Value Comments
Advanced

  |- PCI Subsystem Settings

Above 4G Decoding

Enabled

GPU Large BAR Support
  1. ↑ https://docs.amd.com/bundle/AMD-Instinct-MI100-High-Performance-Computing-and-Tuning-Guide-v5.1/page/System_Settings.html
  2. ↑ https://www.amd.com/en/search/site-search.html#q=High%20Performance%20Computing%20(HPC)%20Tuning%20Guide%20for%20AMD%20EPYC
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