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

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:

• This page is maintained by Joe Griffin.

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: