SPEC CPU2006 Platform Settings for ACTION systems based on Intel Solutions

Firmware / BIOS / Microcode Settings

Power & Performance:

    This BIOS option define Power Management on server.
    This can be one of the following:  [Performance], [Balanced Performance], [Balanced Power] or [Power].
    [Performance] option - optimization is strongly toward performance, even at the expense of energy efficiency.
    Users should set this option as [Performance] for performing application benchmarking.
    

Intel(R) Hyper-Threading Tech:

    Enabling this option allows to use processor resources more efficiently, enabling multiple threads to run on each core
    and increases processor throughput, improving overall performance on threaded software.
    This can be one of the following:  [Enable] or [Disable].
    Users should set this option as [Enable] for SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006.
    Users should set this option as [Disable] for SPECint2006 and SPECfp2006.
    

Enforce POR:

    Enable to enforce POR restriction for DDR4 frequency and voltage programming.
    This can be one of the following:  [Disabled] or [Enabled].
    When memory modules are populated in two or more Dimm Per Channel, users should set this option as [Disabled] for manually selecting Memory Frequency.
    

Memory Operating Speed Selection:

    This can be one of the following: [Auto], [1333], [1600], [1866], [2133].
    When Enforce POR option is set as [Disabled], users can manually set Memory Frequency to maximum supported by the processor.
    

Cluster-on-Die:

    This Bios option is visible for Intel(R) E5-26xx v3 processors with 10+ cores.
    Enabling this option reduce coherence traffic and cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
    This can be one of the following:  [Enable] or [Disable].
    Users should set this option as [Enable] for performing application benchmarking.
    

Set Fan Profile:

    This feature allows manually selecting cooling mode.
    This can be one of the following:  [Performance], or [Acoustic].
    [Performance] - Fan control provides primary system cooling before attempting to throttle memory.
    [Acoustic] - The system will favor using throttling of memory over boosting fans to cool the system if thermal thresholds are met.
    Users should set this option as [Performance] for performing application benchmarking.
    

Fan PWM Offset:

    This number is added to the calculated PWM value to increase Fan Speed.
    Users can set this option from 0 to 100.
    For best cooling (fans full speed) users can set this option as 100.