MSC.Nastran V70.7 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
LGQDF	93,375	Cube w/ interior	108	100 Mb	600 Mb	1.3 Tb	76 Frequency Increments
XLEMF	658,354	Car Body	111	400 Mb	9000 Mb	474 Gb	449 + 39 Roots
XLOOP	486,573	Car Body	200	1700 Mb	26 Gb	1700 Gb	3 Design cycles, 500+roots
XLRST	739,651	Engine	101	80 Mw	4000 Mb	18 Gb
XLTDF	529,257	Car Body	108	450 Mb	5000 Mb	209 Gb	32 Frequency Increments
XXCMD	1,323,787	Car Body	103	800 Mb	43 Gb	2.4 Tb	1088 Roots

MEM and SCR is per task.

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
CRAY	SV1	UNICOS 10.0
Compaq	HPC320 (ES40 EV67 667 MHz)	UNIX 4.0
HP	HP 9000 N4000 440 MHz PA8500	HP-UX 11.0
intel nt	intel dell PIII 500 MHz	Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381)
IBM	RS/6000 SP 375 MHz POWER3 SMP	AIX 4.3
NEC	SX-5 Server (4 GFlops)	SuperUX 9.2
SGI	Origin 2000 / 400 MHz	IRIX64 6.5
Sun	E4000 336 MHz	Solaris 7

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Additional Comments:

Hardware Details:

• CRAY

      Model:            SV 1
      OS Level:         UNICOS 10.0
      

• Compaq

      Model:            HPC320 (ES40 EV67 667 MHz)
      OS Level:         UNIX 4.0 
      Memory:           8Gb
      Hardware Options: 4 Mb L2 cache, Cross bar interconnect to CPU and memory.
      

• HP

      Model:            9000 N4000 440 Mhz PA8500
      OS Level:         HP-UX 11.0
      Memory:           16Gb
      Virtual Mem:      swap was configured as approx. 1.5x real memory
      Disk:             fibre channel striped array: 2 controllers, 
                        10 disks (10,000 rpm, 18gb)
                        (each system had 1 of these)
      

• IBM

      Model:            RS/6000 SP with 375 MHz POWER3 SMP nodes
      OS Level:         AIX 4.3
      Memory:           8 Gb
      Disk:             The scratch file system on each node was striped across
                        eight 9.1 Gb SSA disks.
      Notes:            The following command was used to optimize I/O performance.
                        It is recommended for AIX systems running MSC.Nastran.
                        /usr/samples/kernel/vmtune -p5 -P10 -r8 -R128 -f120 
                        -F560  -W128
  
      

• intel NT DELL

      Model:            Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz
      OS Level:         Windows NT 4.0 
      Memory:           1 Gb
      Disk:             Raid Controller, 10,000 RPM. 
      Cache:            16Mb Cache on controller, 1Mb Cache on PIII Xeon.
      

• NEC

      Model:            SX-5 Server (4 GFlops)
      OS Level:         SuperUX 9.2 
      Memory:           128 Gb (real memory)
      

• SGI

      Model:            Origin 2000 / 400 MHz
      OS Level:         IRIX64 6.5
      Memory:           64 Gb           
      Notes:            There is an error in mpirun if the number of tasks
                        is greater or equal to 8.  Therefore, runs with
                        8+ processors were manipulated manually.
      

• SUN

      Model:            E6500 400 MHz
      OS Level:         Solaris 7
      Memory:           1Gb
      Virtual Mem:      swap was configured as approx. 2x real memory
      Disk:             E6500 with 2 A5200 fibre channel striped arrays: 
                        2 controllers, each A5200 with 11 disks (10,000 rpm, 9gb)