MD Nastran MD2010 Serial 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
xx0xst0 2,450,320 Gear 101 8 Gb 290 Gb Linear Contact
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
xl0imf1 468,223 MiniVan 111 4000 Mb 220 Gb Modal Freq Resp w/ factor incore

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
NetList Hypercloud Westmere 3.47 GHz Linux RHEL 5.3
Oracle X4270 Westmere 3.33 GHz Oracle Linux


Times (sec) for XX0XST0
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 2548 2537
NetList (I4 ) 2737 2734
Oracle 3134 3123


Times (sec) for XX0YST0
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 14272 14259
NetList ( I8 ) 14629 14611
NetList ( I4 ) 14673 14653
Oracle 14826 14626


Times (sec) for XX0CMD2
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 674 668
NetList ( I4 ) 723 721
Oracle 634 630


Times (sec) for XX0WMD0
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 6664 6631
NetList ( I4 ) 6873 6859
Oracle 6890 6847


Times (sec) for md0mdf1
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 750 749
NetList (I4 ) 819 817
Oracle 776 768


Times (sec) for xl0idf1
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 2130 2129
NetList ( I4 ) 1933 1931
Oracle 1864 1857


Times (sec) for xl0imf1
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
Intel 1134 1133
NetList ( I4 ) 1314 1313
Oracle * 1009 1002
* Oracle runs were made with a different buffsize.

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
  • 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