BIOS Settings:
Sub NUMA Cluster : Enabled
System Profile : Custom
CPU Power Management : Maximum Performance
C-States : Autonomous
Latency Optimized Mode : Enabled
Energy Efficient Policy : Performance
Sysinfo program /mnt/ramdisk/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2025.2/bin/sysinfo
Rev: r6732 of 2022-11-07 fe91c89b7ed5c36ae2c92cc097bec197
running on S123456-R770AP Mon Nov 10 22:38:51 2025
SUT (System Under Test) info as seen by some common utilities.
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Table of contents
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1. uname -a
2. w
3. Username
4. ulimit -a
5. sysinfo process ancestry
6. /proc/cpuinfo
7. lscpu
8. numactl --hardware
9. /proc/meminfo
10. Systemd service manager version: systemd 257 (257.7+suse.19.ga0dfd5de4c)
11. Services, from systemctl list-unit-files
12. Linux kernel boot-time arguments, from /proc/cmdline
13. cpupower frequency-info
14. sysctl
15. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage
16. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged
17. OS release
18. Disk information
19. /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id
20. dmidecode
21. BIOS
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1. uname -a
Linux S123456-R770AP 6.12.0-160000.4-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Aug 20 16:45:35 UTC 2025 (1147121)
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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2. w
22:38:52 up 7:31, 1 user, load average: 194.26, 258.35, 272.84
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root tty1 - 15:08 7:29m 1.05s ? /bin/bash
/home/DellFiles/bin/Intel/dell-run-speccpu.sh rate --define DL-VERS=6.4_T17 --output_format html,pdf,txt
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3. Username
From environment variable $USER: root
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4. ulimit -a
real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited
core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 6189619
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 8192
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 6189619
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
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5. sysinfo process ancestry
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize=47
login -- root
-bash
/bin/bash /home/DellFiles/bin/DELL_rate.sh
/bin/bash /home/DellFiles/bin/dell-run-main.sh rate
/bin/bash /home/DellFiles/bin/dell-run-main.sh rate
/bin/bash /home/DellFiles/bin/Intel/dell-run-speccpu.sh rate --define DL-VERS=6.4_T17 --output_format
html,pdf,txt
/bin/bash /home/DellFiles/bin/Intel/dell-run-speccpu.sh rate --define DL-VERS=6.4_T17 --output_format
html,pdf,txt
runcpu --nobuild --action validate --define default-platform-flags --define numcopies=288 -c
ic2025.2-linux64-graniterapids-rate-20250605.cfg --define smt-on --define cores=144 --define physicalfirst
--define invoke_with_interleave --define drop_caches --tune base,peak -o all --iterations 2 --define
DL-VERS=6.4_T17 --output_format html,pdf,txt fprate
runcpu --nobuild --action validate --define default-platform-flags --define numcopies=288 --configfile
ic2025.2-linux64-graniterapids-rate-20250605.cfg --define smt-on --define cores=144 --define physicalfirst
--define invoke_with_interleave --define drop_caches --tune base,peak --output_format all --iterations 2
--define DL-VERS=6.4_T17 --output_format html,pdf,txt --nopower --runmode rate --tune base:peak --size
refrate fprate --nopreenv --note-preenv --logfile $SPEC/tmp/CPU2017.002/templogs/preenv.fprate.002.0.log
--lognum 002.0 --from_runcpu 2
specperl $SPEC/bin/sysinfo
$SPEC = /mnt/ramdisk/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2025.2
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6. /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960P
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 173
stepping : 1
microcode : 0x10003f3
bugs : spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass swapgs bhi spectre_v2_user
cpu cores : 72
siblings : 144
2 physical ids (chips)
288 processors (hardware threads)
physical id 0: core ids 0-23,64-87,128-151
physical id 1: core ids 0-23,64-87,128-151
physical id 0: apicids 0-47,128-175,256-303
physical id 1: apicids 512-559,640-687,768-815
Caution: /proc/cpuinfo data regarding chips, cores, and threads is not necessarily reliable, especially for
virtualized systems. Use the above data carefully.
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7. lscpu
From lscpu from util-linux 2.41.1:
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 52 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 288
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-287
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6960P
CPU family: 6
Model: 173
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 72
Socket(s): 2
Stepping: 1
BogoMIPS: 5400.00
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good
nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni
pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma
cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt
tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm
3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cat_l2 cdp_l3 intel_ppin
cdp_l2 ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow
flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep
bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap
avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw
avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc
cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local split_lock_detect user_shstk avx_vnni
avx512_bf16 wbnoinvd dtherm ida arat pln pts hfi vnmi avx512vbmi
umip pku ospke waitpkg avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq
avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg avx512_vpopcntdq la57 rdpid
bus_lock_detect cldemote movdiri movdir64b enqcmd fsrm md_clear
serialize tsxldtrk pconfig arch_lbr ibt amx_bf16 avx512_fp16
amx_tile amx_int8 flush_l1d arch_capabilities
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 6.8 MiB (144 instances)
L1i cache: 9 MiB (144 instances)
L2 cache: 288 MiB (144 instances)
L3 cache: 864 MiB (2 instances)
NUMA node(s): 6
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46
,144,146,148,150,152,154,156,158,160,162,164,166,168,170,172,174,1
76,178,180,182,184,186,188,190
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66,68,70,72,74,76,78,80,82,84,86,88,90,
92,94,192,194,196,198,200,202,204,206,208,210,212,214,216,218,220,
222,224,226,228,230,232,234,236,238
NUMA node2 CPU(s): 96,98,100,102,104,106,108,110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124,126,128,
130,132,134,136,138,140,142,240,242,244,246,248,250,252,254,256,25
8,260,262,264,266,268,270,272,274,276,278,280,282,284,286
NUMA node3 CPU(s): 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47
,145,147,149,151,153,155,157,159,161,163,165,167,169,171,173,175,1
77,179,181,183,185,187,189,191
NUMA node4 CPU(s): 49,51,53,55,57,59,61,63,65,67,69,71,73,75,77,79,81,83,85,87,89,91,
93,95,193,195,197,199,201,203,205,207,209,211,213,215,217,219,221,
223,225,227,229,231,233,235,237,239
NUMA node5 CPU(s): 97,99,101,103,105,107,109,111,113,115,117,119,121,123,125,127,129,
131,133,135,137,139,141,143,241,243,245,247,249,251,253,255,257,25
9,261,263,265,267,269,271,273,275,277,279,281,283,285,287
Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Indirect target selection: Not affected
Vulnerability Itlb multihit: Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf: Not affected
Vulnerability Mds: Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown: Not affected
Vulnerability Mmio stale data: Not affected
Vulnerability Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Retbleed: Not affected
Vulnerability Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB conditional;
PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI BHI_DIS_S
Vulnerability Srbds: Not affected
Vulnerability Tsa: Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort: Not affected
From lscpu --cache:
NAME ONE-SIZE ALL-SIZE WAYS TYPE LEVEL SETS PHY-LINE COHERENCY-SIZE
L1d 48K 6.8M 12 Data 1 64 1 64
L1i 64K 9M 16 Instruction 1 64 1 64
L2 2M 288M 16 Unified 2 2048 1 64
L3 432M 864M 16 Unified 3 442368 1 64
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8. numactl --hardware
NOTE: a numactl 'node' might or might not correspond to a physical chip.
available: 6 nodes (0-5)
node 0 cpus:
0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,144,146,148,150,152,154,156,158,160,162,
164,166,168,170,172,174,176,178,180,182,184,186,188,190
node 0 size: 257599 MB
node 0 free: 244477 MB
node 1 cpus:
48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66,68,70,72,74,76,78,80,82,84,86,88,90,92,94,192,194,196,198,200,202,204,206,208
,210,212,214,216,218,220,222,224,226,228,230,232,234,236,238
node 1 size: 258030 MB
node 1 free: 257398 MB
node 2 cpus:
96,98,100,102,104,106,108,110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124,126,128,130,132,134,136,138,140,142,240,242,244,2
46,248,250,252,254,256,258,260,262,264,266,268,270,272,274,276,278,280,282,284,286
node 2 size: 258030 MB
node 2 free: 257418 MB
node 3 cpus:
1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47,145,147,149,151,153,155,157,159,161,163,
165,167,169,171,173,175,177,179,181,183,185,187,189,191
node 3 size: 258030 MB
node 3 free: 257409 MB
node 4 cpus:
49,51,53,55,57,59,61,63,65,67,69,71,73,75,77,79,81,83,85,87,89,91,93,95,193,195,197,199,201,203,205,207,209
,211,213,215,217,219,221,223,225,227,229,231,233,235,237,239
node 4 size: 257988 MB
node 4 free: 257361 MB
node 5 cpus:
97,99,101,103,105,107,109,111,113,115,117,119,121,123,125,127,129,131,133,135,137,139,141,143,241,243,245,2
47,249,251,253,255,257,259,261,263,265,267,269,271,273,275,277,279,281,283,285,287
node 5 size: 257952 MB
node 5 free: 257348 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4 5
0: 10 15 17 21 28 26
1: 15 10 15 23 26 23
2: 17 15 10 26 23 21
3: 21 28 26 10 15 17
4: 23 26 23 15 10 15
5: 26 23 21 17 15 10
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9. /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1584774492 kB
'who -r' did not return a run level
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10. Systemd service manager version: systemd 257 (257.7+suse.19.ga0dfd5de4c)
Default Target Status
multi-user running
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11. Services, from systemctl list-unit-files
STATE UNIT FILES
enabled NetworkManager NetworkManager-dispatcher NetworkManager-wait-online audit-rules auditd
chronyd dbus-broker getty@ irqbalance issue-generator kbdsettings klog lvm2-monitor
nvmefc-boot-connections nvmf-autoconnect rollback rsyslog smartd soft-reboot-cleanup sshd
systemd-pstore wpa_supplicant wtmpdb-update-boot
enabled-runtime systemd-remount-fs
disabled blk-availability boot-sysctl ca-certificates ca-certificates-setup chrony-wait
console-getty debug-shell dnsmasq firewalld gpm grub2-once hwloc-dump-hwdata
issue-add-ssh-keys kernel-sysctl kexec-load lastlog2-import lunmask lvm-devices-import
man-db-create multipathd nftables nis-domainname rpmconfigcheck rsyncd serial-getty@
setup-systemd-proxy-env smartd_generate_opts snmpd snmptrapd
systemd-boot-check-no-failures systemd-confext systemd-network-generator systemd-sysext
systemd-time-wait-sync systemd-timesyncd systemd-udev-load-credentials udisks2
wpa_supplicant@
indirect systemd-userdbd
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12. Linux kernel boot-time arguments, from /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.0-160000.4-default
root=UUID=e4f947ce-14ce-42f7-b3ba-64120f83c4e6
mitigations=auto
quiet
security=selinux
selinux=1
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13. cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
Unable to determine current policy
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: yes
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14. sysctl
kernel.numa_balancing 1
kernel.randomize_va_space 2
vm.compaction_proactiveness 20
vm.dirty_background_bytes 0
vm.dirty_background_ratio 10
vm.dirty_bytes 0
vm.dirty_expire_centisecs 3000
vm.dirty_ratio 20
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs 500
vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds 43200
vm.extfrag_threshold 500
vm.min_unmapped_ratio 1
vm.nr_hugepages 0
vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy 0
vm.nr_overcommit_hugepages 0
vm.swappiness 60
vm.watermark_boost_factor 15000
vm.watermark_scale_factor 10
vm.zone_reclaim_mode 0
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15. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage
defrag always defer defer+madvise [madvise] never
enabled [always] madvise never
hpage_pmd_size 2097152
shmem_enabled always within_size advise [never] deny force
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16. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged
alloc_sleep_millisecs 60000
defrag 1
max_ptes_none 511
max_ptes_shared 256
max_ptes_swap 64
pages_to_scan 4096
scan_sleep_millisecs 10000
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17. OS release
From /etc/*-release /etc/*-version
os-release SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
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18. Disk information
SPEC is set to: /mnt/ramdisk/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2025.2
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs tmpfs 150G 5.8G 145G 4% /mnt/ramdisk
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19. /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id
Vendor: Dell Inc.
Product: PowerEdge R770AP
Product Family: PowerEdge
Serial: S123456
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20. dmidecode
Additional information from dmidecode 3.6 follows. WARNING: Use caution when you interpret this section.
The 'dmidecode' program reads system data which is "intended to allow hardware to be accurately
determined", but the intent may not be met, as there are frequent changes to hardware, firmware, and the
"DMTF SMBIOS" standard.
Memory:
20x 00AD042300AD HMCG94AHBRA480N 64 GB 2 rank 6400
2x 00AD063200AD HMCG94AHBRA283N 64 GB 2 rank 6400
2x 00CE042300CE M321R8GA0PB2-CCPEC 64 GB 2 rank 6400
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21. BIOS
(This section combines info from /sys/devices and dmidecode.)
BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc.
BIOS Version: 1.1.5
BIOS Date: 10/22/2025
BIOS Revision: 1.1
