World Record ABAQUS V6.6 on the Sun Blade X6250 Cluster
Wednesday Jul 11, 2007
Sun Blade X6250 posted World Record on the ABAQUS Explicit benchmark test suite the Sun Blade X6250 on the MCAE application ABAQUS V6.6. the Sun Blade X6250 used Xeon 3GHz DC 5160. On the various test cases Sun beats the Intel Supermicro by or by 1% to 39% !! The Sun Blade X6250 beats the Intel Supermicro even when you average all of the test case by an average 4% to 9% (geometric mean of all 6 tests cases at all cpu levels listed).
Both machines have 2 sockets and dual core processors. Runs were made at 1- 2- and 4-cores and a geometric mean was established at each of these "cpu" levels based on the 6 test cases in the benchmark test suite.
The Sun Blade X6250 with 3.0GHz Xeon EM64T 5160 (Woodcrest) processors
and under 64-bit Linux SuSE SLES 10 beats all of the following
platforms with results posted at the ABAQUS website
and for all 6 test cases in the ABAQUS "Explicit" benchmark test suite
and at the 3 "cpu" levels (1-, 2- & 4-"cpu's"):
About The ABAQUS Explicit Module
This module designed for crash and high velocity impact analyses (including wave propagation and inertia effects) is very scalable and analysis models tend to be very large similar to CFD models. Timely results are best obtained using multiple processing units for typically large jobs either on a single multi core server in smp mode or on a multi node cluster of multi core platforms interconnected in dmp mode.
Consequently this module is meant to run primarily in a multi cpu situation either in smp mode on a single large multi core machine or in dmp mode over a cluster of machines.
ABAQUS V6.6-1 Benchmark Test Suites Explicit Benchmark Test Suite Landscape (time in seconds where smaller is better, Sun % better where bigger is better)
| Platform | Cores | e1 | e2 | e3 | e4 | e5 | e6 | Geometric Mean |
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| Sun Blade X6250/5160 | 4 | 10451 | 4509 | 3853 | 1887 | 1990 | 5202 | |
| Intel Super/5160's/RH4 | 4 | 10696 | 4646 | 3881 | 1997 | 2126 | 5460 | |
| Sun % Faster | 2% | 3% | 1% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 4% | |
| Sun Blade X6250/5160 | 2 | 14232 | 7401 | 5477 | 2935 | 3327 | 7582 | |
| Intel Super/5160's/RH4 | 2 | 14878 | 8044 | 6316 | 3310 | 3483 | 8048 | |
| Sun % Faster | 5% | 9% | 15% | 13% | 5% | 6% | 9% | |
| Sun Blade X6250/5160 | 1 | 24800 | 14198 | 10174 | 5147 | 6112 | 9553 | |
| Intel Super/5160 | 1 | 25076 | 14616 | 10563 | 5225 | 6272 | 13242 | |
| Sun % Faster | 1% | 3% | 4% | 1% | 3% | 39% | 8% | |
Abaqus/Explicit Benchmark Problems
The problems described below provide an estimate of the performance that can be expected when running Abaqus/Explicit on different computers. The jobs are representative of typical Abaqus/Explicit applications including high-speed dynamic impact events and quasi-static events with complicated contact conditions. The number of increments listed in the tables below are approximate and can vary somewhat depending on the hardware platform and the number of parallel domains.
E1: Car crash
This benchmark consists of passenger car impacting a rigid wall. The car is meshed primarily with shell elements of type S3RS and S4RS with isotropic hardening Mises plasticity material behavior. The various compenents of the car are connected using multi-point constraints and connector elements. Many of the suspension and drivetrain components are modeled as rigid bodies. The car, road surface, and wall are placed into a single general contact domain and the car is given an initial velocity of 25 mph.
E1
Increments: 62,934
Number of elements: 274,632
E2: Cell phone drop
This benchmark consists of a simplified model of a cell phone impacting a fixed rigid floor. The cell phone components are meshed using a variety of element types including C3D8R, C3D10M, and S4R. The material behavior is modeled using linear elasticity, isotropic hardening Mises plasticity, and hyperelasticity. The components are assembled using surface-based mesh ties and placed into a general contact domain that also includes the floor. The initial velocity and orientation of the cell phone is defined such that a severe oblique impact occurs.
E2
Increments: 87,369
Number of elements: 45,785
Memory requirement: 300 MB
E3: Sheet forming
This benchmark consists of forming a sheet metal part by the deep drawing process. The deformable sheet metal blank is meshed with shell elements of type S4R and uses an isotropic hardening Mises plasticity material model. The tools are meshed using surface elements of type SFM3D4R which are declared rigid. General contact is defined between the blank and tools. The analysis sequence consists of two steps. During the first step the blank is clamped between the binder and die and then during the second step the punch is displaced to form the part. Since the process is essentially quasi-static the computations are performed over a sufficiently long time period to render inertial effects negligible. The performance of this analysis is a direct measure of the performance of the three-dimensional general contact algorithm.
E3
Increments: 31,177
Number of elements: 34,540 (deformable only)
Memory requirement: 550 MB
E4: Projectile penetration
This benchmark consists of a projectile penetrating a steel plate at an oblique angle. Both the projectile and plate are meshed using hexahedral elements of type C3D8R and use a rate-dependent isotropic hardening Mises plasticity material model with failure. The projectile and plate are placed into a general contact domain with surface erosion. The edges of the plate are held fixed and the initial velocity of the projectile is specified so that the projectile passes completely through the plate.
E4
Increments: 12,433
Number of elements: 237,100
Memory requirement: 1400 MB
E5: Blast loaded plate
This benchmark consists of a stiffened steel plate subjected to a high intensity blast load. The plate is meshed using shell elements of type S4R and uses an isotropic hardening Mises plasticity material model. There is no contact.
E5
Increments: 81,716
Number of elements: 50,000
Memory requirement: 150 MB
E6: Concentric spheres
This benchmark consists of a large number of concentric spheres with clearance between each sphere. The spheres are meshed using hexahedral elements of type C3D8R and use an isotropic hardening Mises plasticity material model. All of the spheres are placed into a single general contact domain and the outer sphere is violently shaken which results in complex contact interactions between the contained spheres.
E6
Increments: 23,291
Number of elements: 244,124
Memory requirement: 1000 MB
ABAQUS "Standard" & "Explicit" Benchmark Test Suites
Voltaire GridStack 4.1.5-7 for SLES 10
Disclosure Statement:
The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of Abaqus, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries: Abaqus, Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit. All information on the ABAQUS website is Copyrighted 2004-2007 by Dassault Systems. Results from http://www.simulia.com/support/v66/v66_performance.html as of 7/2/07.
System Configuration
Hardware Configuration:
Sun Blade X6250
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4 2-socket Sun Blade X6250's
2x3.0 GHz DC Intel Xeon EM64T 5160 (Woodcrest) processors
Infiniband (Voltaire) Interconnects (PCI-Express HCA's)
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Linux: 64-bit SUSE SLES 10
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