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Phoronix hpl test for Lenovo x3950 X6 system with 8x e7-8880 v3 CPUs
$ head -3 phoronix-hpl.txt && echo -e "...\n..." && tail -28 phoronix-hpl.txt
hermann@x3950-X6:~/phoronix-test-suite$ sudo ./install-sh
-e
Phoronix Test Suite Installation Completed
...
...
Continuing in 5 seconds or press CTRL-C to stop the testing process.
HPL Linpack 2.3:
pts/hpl-1.0.0
Test 1 of 1
Test Profile Status: Experimental
Estimated Trial Run Count: 3
Estimated Time To Completion: 1 Hour, 8 Minutes [15:51 UTC]
Started Run 1 @ 14:44:17
Started Run 2 @ 17:53:10
Started Run 3 @ 20:59:56
Test Results:
170.34
172.27
173.01
Average: 171.87 GFLOPS
Deviation: 0.80%
Comparison of 301 OpenBenchmarking.org samples since 6 March 2021; median result: 73.26 GFLOPS. Box plot of samples:
[#*!*#*#*--------------------------------------------------| ]
^ This Result (81st Percentile): 172
^ Intel Xeon E-2288G: 135
^ AMD EPYC 7313: 98
^ Loongson-3A5000: 54.1
hermann@x3950-X6:~/phoronix-test-suite$
$
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Hermann-SW commented Aug 14, 2025

Just for comparison to the 171.87 GFLOPS — one of my AMD Instinct MI50 GPUs showed 4.73 TFLOPS with rocHPL (27.5×):
https://www.mersenneforum.org/node/1068090?p=1083509#post1083509

hermann@x3950-X6:~/hpl$ grep xhpl ps.txt | wc
    145    1164    8590
hermann@x3950-X6:~/hpl$

One entry

hermann    43725   43718  0 16:44 pts/1    00:00:01 mpirun --allow-run-as-root -np 144 ./xhpl

144 entries like

hermann    43732   43725 99 16:44 pts/1    04:42:49 ./xhpl

During the multi-hour test the system did draw slightly more than 2KW the whole time.

hermann@x3950-X6:~$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 251Gi 4.9Gi 246Gi 41Mi 1.5Gi 246Gi
Swap: 8.0Gi 0B 8.0Gi
hermann@x3950-X6:~$ nproc
288
hermann@x3950-X6:~$

The system reported the 1st Passmark e7-8880 v3 8-Way entry:
image

More details on my Lenovo x3950 X6:
https://www.mersenneforum.org/node/1067119#post1084391
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