Intel® Xeon® Performance Tuning and Solutions

This resource is intended to provide guidance on the BIOS, Operating System and workload/benchmark settings to get the most out of Intel platforms with server workloads. These guides are designed for people who are already familiar with the workload but are looking for system settings that will improve performance. Although the information may not be exhaustive, it provides a launch point for developers and systems integrators to leverage for further tuning.

Tuning Guides for 3^rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Based Systems

AI workloads

• Popular Deep Learning Frameworks
• Tips to Improve Performance for Popular Deep Learning Frameworks on CPUs
• TensorFlow*
  • TensorFlow* Optimizations on Modern Intel® Architecture
  • Maximize TensorFlow* Performance on CPU: Considerations and Recommendations for Inference Workloads
  • TensorFlow Guide: Optimizing for CPU
  • Guide to TensorFlow* Runtime optimizations for CPU
• Getting Started with Intel® Optimization for MXNet*
• Code Sample: Intel® Deep Learning Boost New Deep Learning Instruction bfloat16 - Intrinsic Functions

General Intel® Architecture tuning guides

• Intel Architecture Reference Manuals
• Tuning Guides and Performance Analysis Papers
• Automated SKU Selection for Intel® Xeon® Processors through Machine Learning

Additional resources

• 3^rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Processor Technical Overview
• Build an Intel®-Based Cluster with OpenHPC* 2.0 on CentOS* 8