MD Nastran MD2010 Parallel Test Results

This page contains the results of several jobs running on different hardware platforms. All jobs were run by hardware partners.
Current partner contact information is here.

Below is a summary of the test problems.

Name Ndof Description SOL MEM Total I/O Comments
xx0yst0 7,068,250 Hull 101 7 Gb 400 Gb> Static Model
xx0cmd2 1,315,562 Car Body 103 1.8 Gb 200 Gb ACMS Model
xx0wmd0 3,799,278 car body 103 2000 Mb 2700 Gb Large ACMS
md0mdf1 42,066 Half Sphere 108 1Gb 0.1Gb Direct Freq w/ Umfpack
xl0tdf1 529,257 Power Train 108 530 Mb 188 Gb Direct Freq
xx0zn40 2,077,956 Engine Block 400 4000 Mb 5365 Gb Big NonLinear Model

Below is a description of the hardware used. Details regarding computer, disk, network and OS configuration are listed at the bottom of this page.

Vendor Hardware O/S
Intel Westmere Westmere 3.47 GHz Linux RHEL 5.4
Mellanox Linux
NetList Hypercloud Westmere 3.47 GHz Linux RHEL 5.3
Oracle X4270 Westmere 3.33 GHz Oracle Linux


Elapsed Times (sec) for XX0YST0
Vendor Serial SMP=2 SMP=4
Intel 14272 7657 5177
NetList ( I8 ) 14629 7738 4391
NetList ( I4 ) 14673 7878 5354
Oracle 14826 8122 5381


Elapsed Times (sec) for XX0CMD2
Vendor Serial DMP=2 DMP=4 DMP=8
Intel 674 416 289 222
NetList ( I8 ) 408 280 217
NetList ( I4 ) 723 405 272 205
Oracle 634 402 206


Elapsed Times (sec) for XX0WMD0
Vendor Serial SMP=2 DMP=2 SMP=2 DMP=2
Intel 6664 5227 4020 3113
NetList ( I4 ) 6873 5754 3832 2955
Oracle 6980 6230 4304 3449


Elapsed Times (sec) for md0mdf1
Vendor Serial DMP=2 DMP=4 DMP=8
Intel 750 369 199 108
NetList (I4 ) 819 374 194 106
Oracle 776 376 196 122


Elapsed Times (sec) for xl0idf1
Vendor Serial DMP=2 DMP=4 DMP=8
Intel 2130 1128 631 450
Mellanox 2113 1110 581 335
NetList ( I4 ) 1933 986 603 524
Oracle Multinode 1874 962 514
Oracle 1864 974 526 307


Times (sec) for xx0zn40
Vendor DMP=2 DMP=2 SMP=2 DMP=2 SMP=4 DMP=4 DMP=4 SMP=2
Intel 38424 24616 20062 26527 20451
NetList ( I4 ) 39663 25274 20535 27076 20857
Oracle 40926 26708 22030 28838 22587

Additional Comments:

Hardware Details:

  • Intel Xeon Westmere 
        Model:            Supermicro X8DTN+
    CPU:              2 X 3.47GHz/12M WSM x5677 (4 cores); HyperThreading off
    OS Level:         RHEL 5.4 (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.crt1)
    Memory:           48 Gb DDR3-1333 MHz ( 6 x 8 Gb )
    Disk:             16 x INTEL Model: SLC 32GB connected to two AOC-USASLP-S8i 
                      RAID controllers.  Disks are grouped as 4 HW RAID0,one/channel 
                      on RAID controllers with 256KB stripe size.  Four HW RAIDS are 
                      grouped as SW RAID0 using mdadm with a 64KB chunk size
  • HPC Advisory Council 
        Model:            Dell PowerEdge M610 16-node .Janus. cluster
    CPU:              Dual socket Intel Xeon 5670 Westmere (6-core) CPUs @ 2.93 GHz 
    OS Level:         RHEL 5.5 (2.6.18-194.el5)
    Memory:           24 GB PC3-10666 memory at 1333 MHz
    Disk:             single 146GB SAS 2.5in 6Gbps 10K RPM drive
    Interconnect:     Mellanox ConnectX-2 VPI adapters for InfiniBand QDR and M3601 InfiniBand QDR Switch
  • NetList Hypercloud 
        Model:            Xeon 5677 Westmere
    CPU:              2 X 3.47 GHz/12M WSM 5677 ( 4 cores )
    OS Level:         RHEL 5.3 (2.6.18-128.el5)
    Memory:           288 Gb 1066 MHz
    Disk:             4 X ATA ST3500320NS SATA Disk SW Raid0
  • Oracle 
        Model:            Cluster of 8 ORACLE SUN FIRE X4270 M2 servers
    CPU:              Intel Xeon X5680 ( Westmere hex-core 3334 MHz )
    OS Level:         Oracle Linux ( 2.6.18-194.el5 )
    Memory:           48 Gb 1333MHz 
    Disk:             either 24 Gb/node tmpfs or 4 15K RPM SAS drives striped per node
    Interconnect:     Infiniband