Table 1 Configuration details of three generations of CPU nodes with AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512 SIMD support and one node with a dual GPU

CPU

2 x Intel Xeon

2 x Intel Xeon

2 x Intel Xeon

2 x Intel Xeon

E5-2670

E5-2680v3

Gold 6140

E5-2630v4

No. CPU cores

2 x 8 = 16

2 x 12 = 24

2 x 18 = 36

2 x 10 = 20

Clock freq.

2.6 GHz

2.5 GHz

2.3 GHz

2.2 GHz

Architecture

Sandy Bridge

Haswell-EP

Skylake

Broadwell

RAM

64 GB

64 GB

192 GB

128 GB

SIMD

AVX

AVX2

AVX-512

AVX2

GPU

-

-

-

2 x nVidia 1080 Ti