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Medium Cases:
DES Aeroacoustics

Large Cases:
A-Class
C-Class

Benchmarks STAR-CD V4.06

Description Turbulent Flow around A-Class Car
Cells Mesh Iterations Solver Solution
5,914,426 Trimmed
Hexahedral
Conv ~2130 CGS Steady

A-Class DATASET


Plots (Log-Scale) Elapsed Times (Seconds)

HP 4-Cores/Proc 2-Cores/Proc 1-Core/Proc All-Cores

SGI 4-Cores/Proc 2-Cores/Proc 1-Cores/Proc All-Cores

 






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
512 980.54    
256 1576.16    
128 2971.45    
64 5840.63    
32 10909.69    
16 20241.03    
8 40316.10    
HP Harpertown Based Processors BL460c
Two Intel Xeon CPU X5460 3.16 GHz
(Dual-Processor,Quad Core )
1333 MHz FSB

System Details
Performance Metrics
128 2716.46    
64 6043.58 3223.34  
32 13290.10 6792.84 5690.67
16 26733.36 14150.32 11104.33
8 54018.49 29357.65 22282.86
4   59256.04 44686.56
HP Harpertown Based Processors DL160 G5
Two Intel Xeon CPU E5472 3.0 GHz
(Dual-Processor,Quad Core )
1600 MHz FSB

System Details
Performance Metrics
256 1196.34    
128 2511.51 1623.57  
64 5359.41 3246.95 3093.32
32 11624.39 6491.51 5840.32
16 22520.74 13088.74 11150.31
8 45213.18 26734.32 22282.74
4   53730.57 44498.63
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 1217.73 902.20  
128 3007.76 1571.79 1602.48
64 6104.36 3406.69 3125.72
32 13395.70 6958.25 5930.03
16 26840.23 14398.98 11520.99
8 54262.53 29829.46 22879.97
4   60415.06 48567.85
SGI Altix ICE+ Harpertown Based Processors
Two Intel Xeon CPU X5472 3.0 GHz
(Dual-Processor,Quad Core)
1600 MHz FSB

System Details
Performance Metrics
512 647.00    
256 1023.00 828.00  
128 2346.00 1478.00  
64 5094.00 3124.00  
32 10932.00 6294.00  
16 21985.00 12747.00  
SGI Altix ICE Clovertown Based Processors
Two Intel Xeon CPU X5365 3.0 GHz
(Dual-Processor,Quad Core)
1333 MHz FSB

System Details
Performance Metrics
512 1453.00    
256 1848.00 1075.00  
128 3138.00 1846.00  
64 6814.00 3769.00  
32 14986.00 7778.00  
16 28408.00 15602.00  
SGI Altix XE Wolfdale Based Processors
Two Intel Xeon CPU X5272 3.40 GHz
(Dual-Core)
1600 MHz FSB

System Details
Performance Metrics
64   3421.00  
32   6840.00  
16   13483.00  
8   26588.00  
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   9441.00  
16   17994.00 13613.00
8   37383.00 28999.00
4   74161.00 54832.00

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