CD-adapco, STAR-CD Product Benchmarks
STAR-CD 

Benchmarks STAR-CD V4.06

Description Aeroacoustics 3D DES compressible
transient flow in an HVAC duct with
right-angle bend and flap
Cells Mesh Time Steps Solution
2,363,104 Hexahedral 1000 Transient

DES DATASET

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Plots (Log-Scale) Elapsed Times (Seconds)

HP 4-Cores/Proc 2-Cores/Proc Unavailable All-Procs

SGI Unavailable 2-Cores/Proc 1-Core/Proc All-Procs

 


System
Cores 4-Cores/Proc
Elapsed Secs
2-Cores/Proc
Elapsed Secs
1-Core/Proc
Elapsed Secs
HP Barcelona Based Processors DL165 G5
Two AMD CPU 2536 2.30 GHz
(Dual-Processor,Quad Core )

System Details
Performance Metrics
       
256 1930.65    
128 2931.46    
64 5589.67    
32 11057.90    
16 21655.97    
8 42511.54    
       
HP Harpertown Based Processors BL460c
Two Intel Xeon CPU X5450 3.0 GHz
(Dual-Processor,Quad Core)
1333 MHz FSB

System Details
Performance Metrics
       
256 1642.99    
128 2899.15 2299.52  
64 6320.24 4327.72  
32 13913.94 6947.48  
16 27503.17 14832.79  
8 55624.97 30024.58  
       
SGI Altix XE240 Woodcrest Based Processors
Two Intel Xeon CPU 5160 3.0 GHz
(Dual-Core) 1333 MHz FSB
Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster
Edition Service Pack 2

System Details
Performance Metrics
       
32   10878.00  
16   20533.00 15420.00
8   39098.00 28299.00
       

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