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<title>SPEC CPU2006 software OS and BIOS Settings Descriptions for ASUSTek Platform systems</title>

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 <dt>Hardware Prefetch:</dt> 
        <dd>
         <p>This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism 
         to prefetch data into the cache according to a pattern-recognition algorithm
         In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. 
         Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking 
         to verify improved performance in their environment.
         </p>
         </dd>

 <dt>Adjacent Sector Prefetch:</dt> 
        <dd>
        <p>This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism 
        to fetch the adjacent cache line within a 128-byte sector that contains the 
        data needed due to a cache line miss.
        In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. 
        Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking 
        to verify improved performance in their environment.
        </p>
        </dd>

<dt>Intel Turbo boost Technology:</dt> 
	 <dd>
	 <p>Enabling this option allows the processor cores to automatically increase its frequency and increasing 
       performance if it is running below power, temperature.
       </p>
       </dd>       
	 
<dt>Intel Hyper Threading Technology:</dt> 
	 <dd>
	 <p>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.
       </p>
       </dd>
              	
	 	 
        
         
<dt>HUGETLB_MORECORE</dt>
         <dd>
         <p>Set this environment variable to "yes" to enable applications to use large pages.</p>
	 </dd>

<dt>LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so </dt>
         <dd>
         <p> Setting this environment variable is necessary to enable applications to use large pages.</p>
         </dd>



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