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IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

danielrozental — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:11:19 GMT

Hi all, I wonder if anyone here has experience with or can comment on the expected performance of QlikView running on an IBM System x3850 X5 server with 8 sockets (64 cores), Intel Xeon E7-8830 8C (2.13GHz 24MB L3 105w 8S) processors and 512 GB of memory.

Thanks

Re: IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

Jason_Michaelides — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:47:50 GMT

You are entering an extremely variable area...! I would read this thread and any others you can find:

http://community.qlik.com/message/401233#401233

plus contact QlikTech support and ask their server architects for an opinion.

more cores can actually be a hinderence...

Re: IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

tseebach — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:09:14 GMT

Hi Daniel,

Look here for the latest Server Whitlelist http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2942 it mentions the IBM x3850 X5 and that you should check this post http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2362

Re: IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

danielrozental — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:05:42 GMT

Thanks Guys, I'm aware of those documents, I was looking for someone who might have experience with that particular configuration or with 8 sockets servers to see how much of a performance killer are them.

Re: IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:25:21 GMT

Daniel

Have a look at this post that I read this morning Tips: QlikView Server hardware recommendations. I agree with its sentiment regarding ensuring sufficient RAM being paramount.

"Performance" is always a slippery blighter to quantify before the event.

Can you quantify how much load you are going to place on the server ?

Best Regards, Bill

Re: IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:41:50 GMT

Hi Daniel

We have a cluster with this server with L7545 processor, and we had many problems with NUMA that we needed to quit memory card to leave slot empty and coompliance with qlikview´s specification about RAM.

This kind of server is good for other porpouse than qlikview (i.e. virtualization, file server, etc)

Good luck.

Re: IBM System x3850 X5 with 8 sockets (64 cores)

danielrozental — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:18:07 GMT

Thanks for your comments guys