MSC.Nastran V2005 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
B1	1,929,582	Car body	111	1 Gb	44 Gb	1151 Gb	Automotive NVH, structure only, 5000 modes, 150 load cases
LGQDF	31,125	Cube w/ interior	108	100 Mb	0.6 Gb	1000 Gb	76 Frequency Increments, iterative solution
OX12	6,609,198	Car body	111	1 Gb	69 Gb	2429 Gb	Automotive NVH, acoustics, 6Mdof
XLOOP	486,573	Car Body	200	1000 Mb	28 Gb	1700 Gb	3 Design cycles, 500+roots
XLEMF	654,560	Car Body	111	400 Mb	11 Gb	400 Gb	Acoustics 448 + 34 Roots
XLTDF	529,027	Car Body	108	450 Mb	5 Gb	209 Gb	32 Frequency Increments
XXAFST	2,490,516	Propeller Housing	101	400 Mb	11 Gb	77 Gb
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
Fujitsu RXI300	Intel 1600 MHz IA64	RedHat 4
Intel Coyote EM64T	Intel EM64T SSE3 3600 MHz	RedHat 3.2
HP DL360G4	Intel Xeon 3400 MHz	RedHat 4
HP DL585	AMD Opteron 2600 MHz	SuSE9
HP RX1620	IPF-2 1600 MHz 3Mb Cache	HP-UX 11.23
HP RX1620	IPF-2 1600 MHz 3Mb Cache	RHE3.0
HP RX4640	IPF-2 1600 MHz	SuSE9
HP XW9300	AMD Opteron 2600 MHz	RHEL3
IBM p550	p550 1650 MHz POWER5	AIX 5.3
IBM p575	p575 1900 MHz POWER5	AIX 5.3
Sun	Sun Fire V40z 2600 MHz	SuSE9

Additional Comments:

• This page is maintained by Peter Schartz.

Hardware Details:

• Fujitsu

      Model:            RXI300
      CPU:              IA64 1600 MHz
      OS Level:         RedHat 4
      Memory:           16 Gb
      Disk:             Single disk
      

• Intel EM64T SSE3

      Model:            Coyote (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              EM64T SSE3 3600 MHz; 2M L2 cache
      OS Level:         RedHat 3
      Memory:           16 Gb
      Disk:             4x73Gb 15kRPM U320 4-way stripe
      

• HP DL360G4

      Model:            DL360G4 (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              Intel Xeon 3400 MHz
      OS Level:         RedHat 4
      Memory:           8 Gb
      Disk:             xfs stripe of 14 SCSI disks in MSA30 one U320 SCSI controller two channels
      

• HP DL585

      Model:            DL585 (4 CPUs)
      CPU:              AMD Opteron 2600 MHz
      OS Level:         SuSE9
      Memory:           32 Gb
      Disk:             xfs stripe of 16 SCSI disks in MSA30 one U320 SCSI controller two channels
      

• HP RX1620

      Model:            rx1620 (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              IPF-2 1600 MHz 3Mb Cache
      OS Level:         HP-UX 11.23
      Memory:           16 GB Real memory
                        8 GB Swap space
      Disk:             VXFS stripe of 14 SCSI 15kRPM disks in MSA30 two U320 SCSI controllers
      

• HP RX1620

      Model:            rx1620 (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              IPF-2 1600 MHz 3Mb Cache
      OS Level:         RHE3.0
      Memory:           16 GB Real memory
                        8 GB Swap space
      Disk:             MKRAID stripe of 14 SCSI 15kRPM disks in MSA30 two U320 SCSI controllers
      

• HP RX4640

      Model:            rx4640 (4 CPUs)
      CPU:              IPF-2 1600 MHz
      OS Level:         SuSE9
      Memory:           32 GB Real memory
                        8 GB Swap space
      Disk:             xfs stripe of 20 SCSI disks in MSA30
      

• HP XW9300

      Model:            xw9300 (2 CPUs)
      CPU:              AMD Opteron 2600 MHz
      OS Level:         RHEL3
      Memory:           16 GB Real memory
                        8 GB Swap space
      Disk:             Ext3 stripe of 4 SCSI 15kRPM disks 2 channels
      

• IBM

      Model:            p550 (4 CPUs)
      CPU:              POWER5 1650 MHz
      OS Level:         AIX 5.3
      Memory:           24 GB memory; 16Gb set as Large Pages; MIO=8Gb
      Disk:             JFS2 striped at 256kb on 8 (15kRPM) disks
      

• IBM

      Model:            p575 (8 CPUs)
      CPU:              POWER5 1900 MHz
      OS Level:         AIX 5.3
      Memory:           32 GB memory; 16Gb set as Large Pages; MIO=16Gb
      Disk:             JFS2 striped at 256kb on 24 (15kRPM) disks
      

• Sun

      Model:            Sun Fire V40z
      CPU:              AMD Opteron 2600 MHz
      OS Level:         SuSE9
      Memory:           24 GB
      Disk:             2 internal 73Gb 10kRPM SCSI disks (striped)