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 |
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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
