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STAR-CD V4.XX
and officially supported versions
thereafter within the V4.10+ range.
Last Updated: May 27th, 2009
Contact : performance@uk.cd-adapco.com
OVERVIEW
Presented are a suite of benchmark cases, selected to be
industry representative, and typical of cases used by our User Community,
and selected to demonstrate the relative performance on different hardware platforms
and different processor configurations. The cases have been
ordered in small ( <1 million
cells) , medium (1-5 millions cells) and large cases ( >6 million cells).
Please select these cases from the list in the left-hand margin.
RUNNING CRITERIA
- The standard release version of STAR-CD V4.XX and officially
supported versions, must be used by the vendor.
- Optimized versions may be used, but only if this has also been
released to the user.
- The vendor must use the supplied input files as is, modification
of any input file is not permitted.
- These datasets are supplied to vendors under a confidentiality
agreement. The vendors may not pass these datasets to any other
parties.
- Any environment variables used must be reported. A date/time
stamp must be used before and after each run, elapsed time
in seconds will only be used and reported.
- Vendors must report: type of machine, clock rate, amount of
memory, OS version, etc and other parameters to identify the hardware
configuration. A script named "detect" will be provided
to supply this information.
- Vendors may run in either 32 or 64 bit arithmetic precision, as long as it is reported and the run executes in a normal manner.
REPORTING FORMAT
- The report is in alphabetical order of vendor
name, separated by machine type.
- The report contains Detailed System Information, Number of cores, the number of cores used for execution
of this run. Values range from 1 - "N".
and the number of cores used per processor. The report also contains a Performance Metrics table that
shows Scale Factors and Core Usage.
- Reported times will be in elapsed seconds.
DISCLAIMER
The data reported here has been supplied by the vendors of the
respective hardware platforms listed, and though checked by the
CD adapco Group, we can make no warranties, implied or otherwise,
with regard to the accuracy of the data. In addition the CD adapco
Group makes no recommendations as to the suitability or preference
of one hardware platform over another with regards to STAR-CD
or any other CD adapco product.