MSC.Nastran V2004 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	SCR Disk Used	Total I/O	Comments
LGQDF	31,125	Cube w/ interior	108	100 Mb	0.6 Gb	1000 Gb	76 Frequency Increments, iterative solution
XLEMF	654,560	Car Body	111	400 Mb	11 Gb	400 Gb	Acoustics 448 + 34 Roots
XLOOP	486,573	Car Body	200	1000 Mb	28 Gb	1700 Gb	3 Design cycles, 500+roots
XXAFST	2,490,516	Propeller Housing	101	400 Mb	11 Gb	77 Gb
XLTDF	529,027	Car Body	108	450 Mb	5 Gb	209 Gb	32 Frequency Increments
XXCMD	1,584,622	Car Body	103	800 Mb	43 Gb	2400 Gb	1073 Roots
XXCMDA	1,584,622	Car Body	103	400 Mb	4 Gb	800 Gb	XXCMD with ACMS

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
Paracel Linux32	Intel Xeon 2800MHz	Intel Linux 2.4.22
Paracel Linux64	Intel Itanium 2 1300MHz	Intel Linux 2.4.18
IBM	IBM p655 1700 MHz POWER4	AIX 5.1 ML03
IBM AMD	e325 2000 MHz AMD Opteron	Linux 2.4.19-SMP
NEC	SX-6	SuperUX 12.1
NEC TX7	TX7 1500 MHz	Linux 2.4.18-nec3.2p1.015
Linux Networx	Itanium 2 1300 MHz	Linux 2.4.18-e.37smp
HP RX2600	IPF-2 1500 MHz	HP-UX 11.23
HP RX5670	IPF-2 1500 MHz	HP-UX 11.23
HP ZX6000	Itanium 2 1500 MHz	Linux 2.4.18-e.12smp
SGI	Altix IA64 1500 MHz	Linux
Sun	Sun Fire V65x 3200 MHz	Linux 2.4.20-8smp
Dell PE2650 Windows	IA32 3200 MHz	Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
Dell PE2650 Linux	IA32 3200 MHz	32-bit RedHat AdvancedServer 2.1
Dell PE3250 Linux64a	IA64 1400 MHz	64-bit RedHat AdvancedServer 2.1
Dell PE3250 Linux64b	IA64 1500 MHz	64-bit RedHat AdvancedServer 2.1

Additional Comments:

• This page is maintained by Peter Schartz.

Hardware Details:

• Paracel

      Model:            Paracel (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              Intel Xeon CPU 2.80GHz
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp
      Memory:           3787 MB
      

• Paracel

      Model:            Paracel
      CPU:              Intel Itanium 2 1300MHz
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.18
      

• IBM

      Model:            p655 (4 CPUs)
      CPU:              POWER4 1700 MHz
      OS Level:         AIX 5.1 ML03
      Memory:           32 GB memory, 16 GB set as large pages
      Disk:             JFS striped at 128 KB on 16 (36GB) SCSI disks on 4 Ultra160 adapters.
                        32-bit V2004 executable enabled for large pages
      

• IBM AMD

      Model:            e325
      CPU:              AMD Opteron 2000 MHz
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.19-SMP
      

• NEC

      Model:            SX-6
      CPU:              SX-6 9GFLOP Vector processor (8 CPUs)
      OS Level:         SuperUX 12.1
      Memory:           64 GB
      Disk:             4x4 FC disks (NEC Polestar)
      

• NEC TX7

      Model:            TX-7
      CPU:              IA64 1500 MHz (16 CPUs)
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.18-nec3.2p1.015
      Memory:           128 GB
      Disk:             4x4 FC disks (NEC Polestar)
      

• Linux Networx

      Model:            IA64
      CPU:              Itanium 2 1300 MHZ (4 CPUs)
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.18-e.37smp
      Memory:           24 GB
      

• HP RX2600

      Model:            rx2600 (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              IPF-2 1500 MHz
      OS Level:         HP-UX 11.23
      Memory:           12 GB Real memory
                        24 GB Swap space
      Disk:             1 fiber channel controllers / 5 fc disk scratch stripe
      

• HP RX5670

      Model:            rx5670 (4 CPUs)
      CPU:              IPF-2 1500 MHz
      OS Level:         HP-UX 11.23
      Memory:           24 GB Real memory
                        50 GB Swap space
      Disk:             4 fiber channel controllers / 20 fc disk scratch stripe
      

• HP ZX6000

      Model:            zx6000 (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              Itanium 2 1500 MHz
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.18-e.12smp
      Memory:           6 GB
      Disk:             (8) 36 GB Ultra 160
      

• SGI

      Model:            Altix
      CPU:              Intel Itanium 2 1500 MHz
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4
      

• Sun

      Model:            Sun Fire V65x
      CPU:              Intel Xeon 3200 MHz
      OS Level:         Linux 2.4.20-8smp
      Memory:           6 GB
      Disk:             2 x 36GB striped SCSI
      

• Dell PE2650 Windows

      Model:            PE2650
      CPU:              IA32 3200 MHz 1MB L3 Cache
      OS Level:         Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
      Memory:           4GB DDR200 memory
      Disk:             4 U160 36GB SCSI (software stripe)
      

• Dell PE2650 Linux

      Model:            PE2650
      CPU:              IA32 3200 MHz 1MB L3 Cache
      OS Level:         32-bit RedHat AdvancedServer 2.1
      Memory:           4GB DDR200 memory
      Disk:             4 U160 36GB SCSI (software stripe)
      

• Dell PE3250 Linux64a

      Model:            PE3250
      CPU:              IA64 1400 MHz 1.5MB L3 Cache
      OS Level:         64-bit RedHat AdvancedServer 2.1
      Memory:           16GB DDR200 memory
      Disk:             2 U320 36GB SCSI (software stripe)
      

• Dell PE3250 Linux64b

      Model:            PE3250
      CPU:              IA64 1400 MHz 6MB L3 Cache
      OS Level:         64-bit RedHat AdvancedServer 2.1
      Memory:           16GB DDR200 memory
      Disk:             2 U320 36GB SCSI (software stripe)