MD Nastran MDR3 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 Total I/O Comments
xx0wmd0 3,799,278 car body 103 2000 Mb 169 Gb 3600 Gb Frequency Response w/ (interior) acoustics, and ACMS
md0mdf1 42,066 Half Sphere 108 1000 Mb 320 Mb 81 Gb Direct Freq w/ Umfpack
xl0imf1 468,223 MiniVan 108 4000 Mb 12 Gb 227 Gb Modal Freq Resp w/ factor incore
xx0xst0 2,450,320 Rim 101 8000 Mb 17 Gb 139 Gb Linear Contact
xl1fn40 437,340 Gear 400 400 Mb 6 Gb 753 Gb Modal Freq Response w/ Factor Incore
xl0xdy0 286,216 Truck Crash 700 300 Mb ---Gb ---Gb LS-Dyna Crash
vl0sst1 410,889 Strut 101 3000 Mb 4 Gb 14 Gb Statics w/ TAUCS

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 DL160 Intel 3000 MHz Linux RHEL 5.2
HP BL465c AMD/Opteron 2400 MHz Linux SLES 10.2
HP BL860c Intel/Itanium 2 1600 MHz Linux RHEL 4
IBM POWER 6 p570 4700 MHz POWER 6 AIX 5.3
Intel Xeon Nehalem Intel Xeon (Nehalem 2930 MHz) (24Gb w/ SSD) or (48Gb w/o SSD) RHEL 5.3
Intel Xeon Harpertown Intel Xeon (Harpertown 3200 MHz) Linux RedHat 5.1
SUN X6275 NeHalem Quad Core Intel 5570 2.93 MHz Linux SLES 10 SP1
SUN X6250 Dual Core Intel 3330 MHz Linux SLES 10 SP1


Times (sec) for XX0WMD0
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL160 Xeon 21440 17778
HP:BL465c Opteron 16467 15001
HP:BL860C Itanium 24194 21595
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 15763 14924
Intel Nehalem 17651 14228
Intel Harpertown 21319 17384
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 13699 10818
IBM:P6 570 ( I8 ) 14272 11379
SUN:X6250 Xeon 21428 17896


Times (sec) for md0mdf1
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL160 Xeon 1218 1216
HP:BL465c Opteron 1385 1382
HP:BL860C Itanium 1711 1708
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 902 901
Intel Nehalem 922 921
Intel Harpertown 1167 1166
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 911 903
SUN:X6275 Xeon 880 878
SUN:X6250 Xeon 1153 1140


Times (sec) for xl0imf1
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL160 Xeon 2599 2596
HP:BL465c Opteron 2074 2064
HP:BL860C Itanium 1296 1275
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 1484 1483
Intel Nehalem 1235 1232
Intel Harpertown 2629 2626
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 1016 973
SUN:X6275 Xeon 1107 1105
SUN:X6250 Xeon 2575 2525


Times (sec) for XX0XST0
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL160 Xeon 1274 1271
HP:BL465c Opteron 1169 1207
HP:BL860C Itanium 2319 2283
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 767 760
Intel Nehalem 971 754
Intel Harpertown 1516 1347
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 1618 1552
IBM:P6 570 ( I8 ) 1510 1448
SUN:X6275 Xeon 798 787
SUN:X6250 Xeon 1324 1293


Times (sec) for xl1fn40
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL160 Xeon 3621 3600
HP:BL465c Opteron 3713 3669
HP:BL860C Itanium 7607 7484
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 2456 2452
Intel Nehalem 2453 2442
Intel Harpertown 3589 3563
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 5534 5445
IBM:P6 570 ( I8 ) 4612 4529
SUN:X6275 Xeon 2285 2283
SUN:X6250 Xeon 3653 3595


Times (sec) for xl0xdy0
Vendor Elapsed
HP:DL160 Xeon 3421
HP:BL465c Opteron 3753
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 2534
Intel Nehalem 2467
Intel Harpertown 3444
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 4921
IBM:P6 570 ( I8 ) 4921


Times (sec) for vl0sst1
Vendor Elapsed CPU (User+Sys)
HP:DL160 Xeon 150 149
HP:BL465c Opteron 125 124
HP:BL860C Itanium 238 213
Intel Nehalem w/ SSD 120 119
Intel Nehalem 123 119
Intel Harpertown 145 144
IBM:P6 570 ( I4 ) 147 138
IBM:P6 570 ( I8 ) 132 123
SUN:X6250 Xeon 175 164
SUN:X6275 Xeon 120 118

Additional Comments:

Hardware Details:

  • HP DL160 G5 
        Model:            DL160 G5
    CPU:              Intel Xeon 5472 3000 MHz (2 Quad Cores)
    OS Level:         RedHat Linux 5.2
    Memory:           32 Gb
    Disk:             4 SAS disks per node
  • HP BL465c G5 
        Model:            BL465c G5
    CPU:              AMD Shanghai 2384 2700 MHz (2 Quad Cores)
    OS Level:         Linux SLES 10.2
    Memory:           32 Gb
    Disk:             BL40c storage blade with 6 72GB 15 K rpm disks
  • HP BL860c 
        Model:            BL860c
    CPU:              Itanium 2 1600 MHz (2 Processors / 4 Cores)
    OS Level:         RedHat Linux 4 
    Memory:           48 Gb
    Disk:             SB40c storage blade with 6 disks
  • Intel Xeon Harpertown 
        Model:            Xeon 5482 Harpertown (2 CPUs / 4 CORES)
    CPU:              2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Harpertown Processor 3200 MHz, C0 Stepping
    OS Level:         RedHat 5.1
    Memory:           32 Gb
    Disk:             4 X 73 Gb U320 15K RPM Software Raid 0
  • Intel Xeon Nehalem 
        Model:            Xeon 5570 Nehalem (2 CPUs / Quad CORES)
    CPU:              2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem Processor 2.93GHz, C0 Stepping 6.4 GT/s QPI
                      Turbo: enabled, EIST: enabled, HT: enabled
    OS Level:         RedHat 5.3 beta ( 2.6.18-120.e15)
    Memory w/o SSD:   48Gb DDR3-1067MHz ( 12X 4Gb)
    Disk w/o SSD:     4 X 146Gb 15K RPM U320 SCSI SW Raid0
    Memory w/ SSD:    24Gb DDR3-1067MHz ( 12X 2Gb)
    Disk w/ SSD:      4 X Intel X25-E SATA Solid State Disk SW Raid0
  • IBM POWER 6-570 
        Model:            System p6 570
    CPU:              POWER6 4.7 GHz CPUs (4 socket, dual core)
    OS Level:         AIX 5.3 TL06, ESSL 4.3.0.3, POE 4.3.1.0
    Memory:           64 Gb (64 GB large pages)
    Disk:             JFS2 striped on 24 (15k rpm) U320 disks
  • Sun 
        Model:            X6275 (8 CPUs)
    CPU:              Intel 5570 2.93 GHz Processors
    OS Level:         SLES 10 SP 1
    Memory:           48 Gb DDR3 1333 MHz
    Disk:             Sun Storage 2540's with X4270's as MDS and ODS servers
                      Lustre Version 1.6.4.3
  • Sun 
        Model:            X6250 (2 CPUs)
    CPU:              Intel 5260 3.33 GHz Processors
    OS Level:         SLES 10 SP 1
    Memory:           60 Gb - NUMA memory
    Disk:             Sun X4540 Storage Server with 8 internal file systems and associated controllers
                      Lustre Version 1.6.4.3