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World Record MCAD: Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 Benchmarks Sun Ultra 24

Wednesday Oct 24, 2007

The Sun Ultra 24 desktop sets a world record in the MCAD market. The Ultra 24 beats competitive platforms from Dell, IBM, and HP. The single socket Ultra 24 can use either Intel dual-core and quad-core processors. The Sun Ultra 24 demonstrates both excellent performance and $/performance.

Pro/E is leading software MCAD system. Most major MCAE ISV applications have integration with Pro/E. Pro/E is used in a variety of different disciplines such as automotive, aircraft, aerospace, marine, oil&gas, earth moving, biomedical, heavy industry, atomic energy, etc.

Sun supports Pro/E on Opteron-based desktop platforms and Xeon-based platforms. Pro/E users appreciate Solaris for its maturity, reliability, suberb maintenanace and comprehensive well developed network features. This is a benefit for many engineering corporations that have distributed design.

The OCUS V5 benchmark has a 32-bit "Normal" benchmark and a newer 64-bit "Large Memory" benchmark to show performance on larger new workloads.

The 32-bit "Normal" OCUS V5 benchmark and World Record Ultra 24 Performance

  • The Sun Ultra 24 (3GHz QC Intel QX6850 Xeon processor, 8GB memory, an nVidia Quadr0 FX 5600 framebuffer, 2x15K SAS striped drives under 64-bit Win 2003 SP 2 XP 64-Ed. sets a new MCAD world record running the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 32-bit "Normal" benchmark beating all "legitimate" hardware vendors with results currently posted at the OCUS V5 www.proesite.com benchmark website.

  • Reruns on the same Ultra 24 platform but with a 3GHz DC Intel Xeon E6850 processor also with nVidia Quadro FX 5600 produced essentially identical world record results as obtained in the initial runs with a with a 3GHz QC E6850 processor.

  • Further reruns on the same Ultra 24 platform with a 3GHz DC Xeon E6850 but with an nVidia Quadro FX 1700 produced essentially identical world record results as obtained in the initial runs with a 3GHz QC QX6850 processor.

  • These results obtained with Pro/E WF 3 are better than any others posted at the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 "Normal" benchmark website by "legitimate" harware vendors. The top most competition comes from current Dell and HP desktop platforms both with the recent dual-core 3GHz Woodcrest 5160 Intel processors or the Intel Core2 Duo Extreme processors

  • The 64-bit "Large Memory" OCUS V5 benchmark and World Record Ultra 24 Performance

    • The Sun Ultra 24 with a 3GHz DC Intel Xeon E6850, 8GB memory, an nVidia Quadr0 FX 1700 framebuffer, 2x15K SAS striped drives under 64-bit Win 2003 SP 2 XP 64-Ed. sets a new MCAD world record running the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" benchmark

    • Reruns on the same Ultra 24 again with a 3GHz DC Intel Xeon E6850 but with the NVidia Quadro FX 5600 framebuffer instead of the NVidia Quadro FX 1700 also produced essentailly the same world record results.

    • Further reruns on the same Ultra 24 platform but now with a 3GHz QC Intel QX6850 processor (same nVidia Quadro FX 5600 framebuffer) produced essentially identical world record results as obtained in the initial runs with a 3GHz DC E6850 Xeon and an nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer.

    • These results obtained with Pro/E WF 3 are better than any others posted at the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS benchmark website. The top most competition comes from current Dell and HP desktop platforms both equipped with the recent dual core 3GHz Woodcrest 5160 Intel processors or the Intel Core2 Duo Extreme processors

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 32-bit "NORMAL" BENCHMARK Selected results are run times in seconds, smaller is better
    Ultra 24 vs. Topmost Current Posted Competitive Result
    Time (in seconds)
    Platform Processor Total Graphics CPU Disk I/O OS
    Ultra 24 1x3.0GHz QC Intel QX6850 1228 664 563 91 Win 64 XP
    Dell Prec 390 1x2.93GHz Intel Core2 X6800 1285 692 591 95 Win 64 XP

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" BENCHMARK

    Selected results are run times in seconds, smaller is better
    Ultra 24 vs. Topmost Current Posted Competitive Result

    Time (in seconds)
    Platform Processor Total Graphics CPU Disk I/O OS
    Ultra 24 1x3.0GHz DC Intel E6850 2809 877 1926 352 Win 64 XP
    Dell Prec. 490 1x3.0GHz DC Intel 5160 3026 1094 1925 341 Win 64 XP

    For results see OCUS website: http://www.proesite.com

    Results Summary

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 32-bit "NORMAL" BENCHMARK

    Submitted Results 32-bit "Normal" OCUS V5 Benchmark
    Reference Date 23 October 2007
    Platform Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
    Total Number Processors 1
    Processor/GHz of Workstation Intel QC QX6850/3.0 GHz
    Memory 4x2 GB DDR2 667MHz dimms
    Operating System Win 2003 SP 2 64 Ed.
    Graphics nVidia Quadro FX 5600 framebuffer
    Disks 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped
    Software Pro/E Wildfire 3 (MCAD Application)
    OCUS V5 32-bit "Normal" Benchmark
    Total Elapsed Time 1228 seconds
    Total CPU Time 563 seconds
    Total Graphics Time 664 seconds
    Total Disk I/O Time 91 seconds

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" BENCHMARK
    Submitted Results 64-bit OCUS V5 Benchmark
    Reference Date 23 October 2007
    Platform Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
    Total Number Processors 1
    Processor/GHz of Workstation Intel DC E6850/3.0 GHz
    Memory 4x2 GB DDR2 667MHz dimms
    Operating System Win 2003 SP 2 64 Ed.
    Graphics nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer
    Disks 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped
    Software Pro/E Wildfire 3 (MCAD Application)
    OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" Benchmark
    Total Elapsed Time 2809 seconds
    Total CPU Time 1926 seconds
    Total Graphics Time 877 seconds
    Total Disk I/O Time 352 seconds

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