MSC.Nastran V2001 Serial Test Results

This page contains the results of several jobs running on different hardware platforms. Each job was run by hardware partners. For best price performance results based on Linux please contact Brad Kindorf

Below is a summary of the test problems.

Name	Ndof	Description	SOL	MEM	SCR Disk Used	Total I/O	Comments
LG0QDF0	31,125	Cube w/ interior	108	100 Mb	0.6 Gb	700 Gb	76 Frequency Increments
XL0EMF0	654,560	Car Body	111	400 Mb	11 Gb	328 Gb	448 + 34 Roots
XL0OOP1	486,573	Car Body	200	1700 Mb	26 Gb	1500 Gb	3 Design cycles, 500+roots
XL0RST0	739,815	Engine	101	320 Mb	4 Gb	18 Gb
XL0TDF1	529,027	Car Body	108	450 Mb	5 Gb	209 Gb	32 Frequency Increments
XX0CMD0	1,584,622	Car Body	103	800 Mb	43 Gb	2400 Gb	1073 Roots
XX0DMD0	1,920,855	Car Body	103	800 Mb	25 Gb	555 Gb	17 Roots

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

Vendor	Hardware	O/S
Compaq	ES45 EV68 100MHz	UNIX 5.1
Cray	SV1ex 500MHz	UNICOS 10.0.0lf
Fujitsu	VPP5000 9.6 Gflops	UXP.V V29L10
HP	HP SuperDome 750 MHz PA8700	HP-UX B.11.11
IBM	IBM p690 Turbo 1300 MHz	AIX 5.1C
Intel HPUX IA64	Intel HPUX IA64 800 MHz	HP-UX 11.20
Intel NT IA64	Intel NT IA64 800 MHz	Windows XP (3505)
Intel Linux IA64	NEC AzusA 800MHz	Turbo Linux 2.4.5-b02
Intel Linux IA32	HP X4000 P4 Xeon 1700 MHz	MSC.Linux 2.4.6-1msc-smp
NEC	SX-6	SuperUX 12.1
SGI	Origin 3000 / 600 MHz	IRIX64 6.5
Sun	UltraSPARC 900 MHz	Solaris 8

Additional Comments:

Hardware Details:

• Compaq

      Model:            Compaq AlphaServer ES45 (4-way SMP)
      CPU:              1 GHz Alpha EV68
      OS Level:         UNIX 5.1 
      Memory:           16Gb
      Disk:             Single stripe set using LSM: 30 18.2 GB disk on 6 ultra3 scsi controller
      

• Cray

      Model:            SV1ex (32 cpus)
      CPU:              SV1ex 500MHz
      OS Level:         UNICOS 10.0.0lf
      Memory:           2 Gbyte (4 GW) memory
      Disk:             96 Gbyte (12 GW) SSDI, configured with:
                        /ssd   4 Gbytes (0.5 GW)
                        swap  32 Gbytes (4.0 GW)
                        sds   60 GBytes (7.5 GW)
      

• Fujitsu

      Model:            Fujitsu VPP5000 9.6 Gflops, VX
      OS Level:         UXP/V V20L10
      Memory:           16Gb
      

• HP

      Model:            Superdome 64-way 9000/800 (16 cells, 64 cpus)
      CPU:              PA-8700 750MHz
                        1.5MB data cache and 0.75MB I-cache
      OS Level:         HP-UX B.11.11
      Memory:           256 GB Real memory
                        238 GB Swap space
                        16 TB virtual address space
      Disk:             16 fc10s with 32 fiberchannel adapters and 159 disks
                        in single 2TB vxfs filesystem with dynamic buffer cache
                        set to 5% min, 60% max
      

• IBM

      Model:            p690 Turbo (32 cpus)
      CPU:              POWER 4 1300 MHz
      OS Level:         AIX 5.1C
      Memory:           96 GB Real memory
      Disk:             Sngle scratch JFS file system was striped over 96 (9GB)
                        SSA disks on 12 adapters.
      

• Intel HP IA64

      Model:            ia64 hp server g4000
      CPU:              800 Mhz C0 4MB L3 cache (4 CPUs)
      OS Level:         HP-UX 11.20
      Memory:           64 GB Real memory
      Disk:             20 disk fibre channel array, all 36gb
      

• Intel NT Intel IA64

      Model:            Bigsur SDV
      CPU:              Itanium 800Mhz / 4Mb cache / C0 stepping
      OS Level:         Windows XP for Itanium Limited Edition Advanced Server (3505)
      Memory:           16 Gb - 16x1Gb PC100 RAM modules (fully populated slots)
      Disk:             QLogic 80Mb LVD Controller SCSI Firmware 1.30
                        2x36Gb 10K RPM Seagate Cheetah drives (software striped,
                        as opposed to spanned)
      BIOS:             117a
      

• Intel Linux IA64

      Model:            NEC Express5800/1160Xa (AzusA)
      CPU:              Itanium 800Mhz 
      OS Level:         Turbo Linux 2.4.5-b02
      Memory:           16 Gb
      Misc:             Processor Affinity control was used for more information regarding
                        Processor Affinity control please contact Cormac Garvey
                        (cgarvey@atcc.necsys.com).
      

• Intel Linux IA32

      Model:            HP 4000
      CPU:              P4 Xeon (1700 MHz)
      OS Level:         MSC.Linux 2.4.6-1.msc-smp 
      Memory:           3 Gb
      Disk:             3X36Gb Software striped IBM Ultrastar DDYS-T36950
      

• NEC

      Model:            SX-6
      CPU:              SX-6 Vector processor (Max 8 GFLOPs per processor) Clock 2Ns
      OS Level:         SuperUX 12.1
      Memory:           64 GB (Real)
      Disk:             NEC Polestar Disk four-way stripping
      

• SGI

      Model:            Origin 3000 / 600 MHz
      CPU:              R1400A 600MHz
      OS Level:         IRIX64 6.5.14f
      Memory:           32 Gb
      Disk:             8 lun TP9400 RAID file system.
      

• SUN

      Model:            UltraSPARC 900 MHz
      OS Level:         Solaris 8