MD Nastran V2006 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
XLTDF 529,027 Car Body 108 450 Mb 5 Gb 209 Gb 32 Frequency Increments
XLXDY 286,216 Truck Against wall 700 300 Mb ---Gb ---Gb LS-Dyna Crash
XXCMD 1,584,622 Car Body 103 1800 Mb 43 Gb 2400 Gb 1073 Roots
XXCMDA 1,584,622 Car Body 103 1800 Mb 4 Gb 800 Gb XXCMD with ACMS
XXIMA 2,236,538 Engine 600 300 Mb --- Gb --- Gb Marc Non-Linear
XXMST 24,173,721 Engine 101 4000 Mb 104 Gb 300 Gb Iterative Solver
XXMMD 24,173,721 Engine 103 Vendor Specific Vendor Specific Vendor Specific Gb Lanczos - 20 modes

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
HP DL140 Intel/woodcrest 3000 MHz Linux RedHat 4
HP DL145 AMD/Opteron 2600 MHz Linux RedHat 4
HP RX3600 Intel/Itanium 2 1600 MHz HPUX B.11.23
IBM POWER 5 p570 2200 MHz POWER 5 AIX 5.3
Intel Xeon Woodcrest Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest 3000 MHz) Linux RedHat 4
NEC SX-8R NEC SX-8R SuperUX 16.1
SGI Altix SGI Altix Itanium Montecito 1600 MHz Linux SuSE9 ProPack 4
SUN SFX4100 AMD/Opteron 2800MHz Linux SLES9
SUN X4600 AMD/Opteron 3000 MHz Linux SLES9


Times (sec) for xltdf
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL140 Xeon woodcrest 3000MHz 4100 4071
HP:DL145 Opteron Linux 2600MHz 5716 5697
HP:RX3600 Itanium HPUX 1600MHz 2829 2820
IBM:p570 AIX 2200MHz 2340 2310
Intel:Xeon Linux 3000MHz 4226 4222
SGI:Altix 1600MHz 3101 3018
SUN:SFX4100 Opteron 2800MHz 5997 5921


Times (sec) for xlxdy
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL140 Xeon woodcrest 3000MHz 4691 4637
HP:DL145 Opteron Linux 2600MHz 5955 5888
IBM:p570 AIX 2200MHz 5945 5848
Intel:Xeon Linux 3000MHz 4869 4834
SGI:Altix 1600MHz 6365 6279
SUN:X4600 Opteron 3000MHz 5871 5825


Times (sec) for xxcmd
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL145 Opteron Linux 2600MHz 18142 17745
HP:RX3600 Itanium HPUX 1600MHz 6002 5925
IBM:p570 AIX 2200MHz 5474 5269
Intel:Xeon Linux 3000MHz 11475 11227
NEC:SX-8R 2316 2605
SGI:Altix 1600MHz 5469 5463
SUN:SFX4100 Opteron 2800MHz 15449 14702


Times (sec) for xxcmd2
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL145 Opteron Linux 2600MHz 2402 2249
HP:RX3600 Itanium HPUX 1600MHz 1506 1480
IBM:p570 AIX 2200MHz 1107 1032
Intel:Xeon Linux 3000MHz 1600 1586
SGI:Altix 1600MHz 1358 1257
SUN:X4600 Opteron 3000MHz 2114 2102


Times (sec) for xxima
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL140 Xeon woodcrest 3000MHz 11433 11426
HP:DL145 Opteron Linux 2600MHz 14307 14300
HP:RX3600 Itanium HPUX 1600MHz 6836 6829
IBM:p570 AIX 2200MHz 8208 8173
Intel:Xeon Linux 3000MHz 11919 11497
SUN:X4600 Opteron 3000MHz 15369 15360


Times (sec) for xxmst
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL145 Opteron Linux 2600MHz 6186 4490
IBM:p570 AIX 2.2GHz 5017 4440
Intel:Xeon Linux 3000MHz 3874 3011
SGI:Altix 1600MHz 7583 7569
SUN:X4600 Opteron 3000MHz 5280 3978

The previous performance runs required vendors to submit the models within a specific set of guidelines (memory, number of processors, etc). For XXMMD, however, vendors were given the opportunity to run the model with as much memory or processors as they wished. IBM submitted the job with the following parameters. No other vendors submitted times for this run: 

mem=50gb mio=50gb smp=16 mode=i8 sys206=8 sscr=800gb


Times (sec) for xxmmd
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
IBM:p570 AIX 2200MHz 26190 155572

Additional Comments:

Hardware Details:

  • HP DL140 
        Model:            DL140
    CPU:              Intel Xeon Woodcrest 3000 MHz (4 CPUs)
    OS Level:         RedHat Linux 4 update 3
    Memory:           16 Gb
    Disk:             5 striped U320 disks
  • HP DL145 
        Model:            DL145
    CPU:              AMD Opteron 2600 MHz (4 CPUs)
    OS Level:         RedHat Linux 4 update 3
    Memory:           16 Gb
    Disk:             5 striped U320 disks
  • HP RX3600 
        Model:            RX3600
    CPU:              Itanium 2 1600 MHz (2 Processors / 4 Cores)
    OS Level:         HPUX B.11.23
    Memory:           16 Gb, FSB was at 533MHz
    Disk:             24-way stripe on 2 DS2405's.  I/O system is PCI-X,
                      2 AB379A dual port FC adapters (4 FC links total)
  • IBM POWER 5-570 
        Model:            System p5 570
    CPU:              16 POWER5+ 2.2 GHz CPUs (8 socket, dual core)
    OS Level:         AIX 5.3 TL04
    Memory:           128 Gb (64 GB large pages)
    Disk:             JFS2 striped at 256kb on 21 (15kRPM) disks, 4 Ultra 320 channels.
    Special:          mio=16gb
  • Intel Xeon Woodcrest 
        Model:            Woodcrest (2 CPUs / 4 CORES)
    CPU:              Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5160 Processor 3000 MHz
    OS Level:         RedHat 4
    Memory:           16 Gb
    Disk:             
    Special:          MKL 9 was used.
  • NEC SX8 
        Model:            SX-8R (8 CPUs)
    OS Level:         SuperUX 16.1
    Memory:           128GB sdram Memory
    Disk:             4-way striped 4Gbs FC disk
  • SGI Altix 
        Model:            IA64 (256 CPUs)
    CPU:              1600MHz 
    OS Level:         SuSE 9, ProPack 4SP3
    Memory:           500 Gb - NUMA memory
    Disk:             16 15k rpm TP900 disks in the volume of the file system.
                      The stripe unit size of the file system is 512KB.
  • Sun 
        Model:            SFX 4100 (2 CPUs)
    CPU:              2800MHz 
    OS Level:         SuSE 9
    Memory:           8 Gb - NUMA memory
    Disk:
  • Sun 
        Model:            X4600 (4 CPUs)
    CPU:              3000MHz 
    OS Level:         SuSE 9
    Memory:           32 Gb - NUMA memory
    Disk: