Hardware Recommendations

General Remarks

• SURE will automatically benefit from additional RAM if available, due to processing in larger parts and less data transfer.

• If your RAM significantly exceeds recommended RAM specifications, manually setting a larger tile size can increase performance. See also Performance Optimization for a table of recommended tile sizes.

• Additional benefits can be expected from a fast communication between CPU and RAM - use all RAM slots (e.g. 8x16GB instead of 4x32GB) if possible to get maximum throughput on the memory lanes

• Processing on graphics card is beneficial for hardware setups with an average CPU.

• Avoid the use of USB and network drives. These type of drives do not enable caching, which leads to a strong performance loss.

• Set the Windows energy plan to Ultimate Performance or other maximum settings by the CPU vendor, as this can have a strong impact on performance

• Disable Antivirus software as file reading and writing can be slowed down - including Windows Defender and its realtime protection

• Use operating system that can handle memory, e.g. Windows for Workstations and update latest chipset drivers and BIOS - particularly for AMD processors

• Some server infrastructures provide more than one strong GPU or grouped CPU kernels. However, running multiple SURE instances in parallel on these infrastructures would not scale the processing throughput in the same way, since the large amount of data traffic (e.g. memory transport) between CPU / GPU and hard disks during the processing would reveal physical limitations in transfer rates between RAM, CPU, GPU and Disk. When targeting cost efficiency, we thus recommend using separate medium-priced hardware instances for each processing Node.

RAM Minimum Requirements

Storage Hardware Examples

See Also

Performance Optimization