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 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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Posted at 07:00AM Oct 24, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags: hpc mcad mcae ultra xeon

Solaris 10 Outperforms Linux: same MCAD software & same hardware

Tuesday Apr 10, 2007

Solaris 10 outperforms Linux by more than 25% on some tests when running the same applications on the same hardware. This helps prove that Solaris is a very high-performance operating system.

Pro/E is the foremost MCAD system and is distributed to major engineering corporations worldwide. Most Product Life Management systems (PLM) have seamless links to this biggest and best MCAD system. This includes all of the major MCAE ISV applications.

The Pro/E Wildfire 3 OCUS V5 benchmarks were used to demonstrate this Solaris superiority over Linux. These benchmarks are endorsed by Pro/E users as being very representative of typical and most frequently used operations that include large memory requirements associated with the increasingly commonplace large assemblies now seen that exceed 32-bit capabilities.

The Solaris Studio compilers and associated performance libraries continue to make applications perform better on X64 platforms relative to builds of the same applications using other compilers, performance libraries, and operating systems on the same platforms.

In fact a recent Desktop Engineering Article demonstrated that Sun Ultra 40 M2 desktops with four large capacity 146 GB 15K rpm internal drives, 2-sockets with dual core 3.0 GHz Opteron 2222 processors, and 32 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 memory (8 4 GB dimms) can function essentially as a personal server permitting the engineer to perform design operations with his MCAD system and concurrently perform CPU and I/O intensive design verification analyses:
http://www.deskeng.com/Articles/Feature/A-Server-on-Every-Desk-200702081652.html

The Sun desktops use the nVidia Quadro FX framebuffers that allow the user to perform MCAD or even more graphics intensive operations in a minimum of rendering time. Sun desktops equipped with the high end framebuffer offerings have set world records with graphics intensive benchmarks such as the SPEC APC UGS-NX3 benchmark:
http://www.spec.org/gpc/apc.data/specapc_nx3_summary.html

as well as the Ensight engineering visualization benchmark:
http://www.ensight.com/rendering-performance-tests.html

The Pro/E Wildfire 3 MCAD OCUS V5 (time in seconds)

Solaris 10 vs. Linux on X64 (Sun Ultra 40 M2 - same hardware)

	Total	Graphics	CPU	Disk I/O	Solaris 10 %Faster
32-bit Normal Benchmark
Solaris 10	1810	913	893	96	25%
SuSE Linux 10	2271	990	1278	107
64-bit Large-Memory Benchmark
Solaris 10	5224	1202	4008	388	6%
SuSE Linux 10	5563	1373	4164	441

Configuration

Sun Ultra 40 M2 desktop
2x2.8 GHz DC Opteron 2220's
8 GB (2x4x1 667 MHz DDR2 dimms)
1x nVidia Quadro FX 5500
Solaris 10
64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise for Desktop (SLED 10)
Application: 64-bit Pro/E Wildfire 3
Benchmark: Pro/E OCUS V5 (32-bit Normal benchmark, 64-bit Large Memory benchmark)

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Posted at 01:56PM Apr 10, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags: linux mcad solaris sun suse

World Record Performance SPECapc Sun beats Woodcrest

Tuesday Nov 14, 2006

Sun Ultra 40 M2 w/2xFX 5500 nVidia Framebuffers (SLI) World Record Performance SPECapc Unigraphics UGS-NX3

The Sun Ultra 40 M2 with dual nVidia Quadro FX 5500s in SLI mode sets a world record running the SPEC APC UGS-NX3 graphics oriented MCAD benchmark beating all desktop platforms, including the Woodcrest and Intel Core2 "Extreme Processor" X6800 cpu's.

The SPEC APC MCAD benchmarks consist of tasks representative of what a designer would do in a typical session. This consists of "Graphics", "CPU", and "I/O" activities.

• In dual framebuffer SLI mode the Ultra 40 M2 with 2.8GHz 2220SE dual core Opteron processors outperforms a Dell 690 (3.0 GHz Woodcrest) by 14% overall and by 37% in the graphics test components.
• In addition, in dual framebuffer SLI mode the existing Ultra 40 outperforms the Dell 690 (Woocrest 3.0 GHz) by 16% overall and by 61% in the graphics component. The Ultra 40 with 3.0 GHz single core Opteron 256 processors (400 MHz DDR1 dimms) versus the 2.8 GHz dual core Opteron 2220SE processors (667 MHz DDR2 dimms), edging the Ultra 40 M2 by about 1%.

The Sun Ultra 40 with a single nVidia Quadro FX 5500 outperforms most other high end desktops equipped with a single framebuffer with currently posted results obtained running the SPEC APC UGS-NX3 benchmark.

• The Sun Ultra 40 with FX 5500 framebuffer outperforms (is faster than) Woodcrest desktops. H-P XW 6400 (4% overall, 39% on graphics); Dell Precision 690 (9% overall, 52% on graphics); IBM Intellistation Z Pro 9228 (14% overall, 62% on graphics)
  

• The Sun Ultra 40 with FX 5500 framebuffer also outperforms all desktops equipped with the Intel 2.93 GHz X6800 "Extreme Processors". H-P XW 4400 (6% overall, 47% on graphics); Dell Precision 390 (10% overall, 47% on graphics)

Sun Opteron desktops have dominated with leading MCAD benchmark results dating back to the introduction of the Sun W1100 and W2100. Sun desktops continue to exhibit excellent MCAD performance as demonstrated by the world record results here for this SPEC APC UGS-NX3 benchmark.

SPECapc Unigraphics NX 3 Benchmark Competitive Landscape (larger is faster):

Results Summary for the SPECapc Unigraphics NX 3 benchmark:

Results
			Dual FX 5500		Dual FX 5500
	Overall Composite:		7.19		7.28
	CPU Composite:		3.08		2.94
	File I/O Composite:		3.00		2.85
	Graphics Composite:		16.85		19.81
Reference Date:			11/10/06		10/12/06
System:			Sun Ultra U40 M2		Sun Ultra U40
Processor/GHz:			Opteron 2220SE/2.8		Opteron 256/3.0

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC reg tm, SPECapc server mark of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 12, 2006: Sun Ultra 40, 2xFX 5500, overall composite 7.28; Dell Precision 690, 2xFX 4500, overall composite 6.30. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 12, 2006: Sun Ultra 40, FX 5500, overall composite 5.66; HP xw6400, FX 4500, overall composite 5.42; Dell Precision 690, FX 3500, overall composite 5.17; IBM Intellistation Z Pro 9228, FX 3500, overall composite 4.96. Results from www.spec.org as of Nov. 8, 2006: Fujitsu Siemens CELSIUS, FX 5500, overall composite 6.42. Results from www.spec.org as of Nov 10, 2006: Sun Ultra 40 M2, 2xFX 5500, overall composite 7.19. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 12, 2006: Sun Ultra 40, FX 5500, overall composite 5.66; HP xw4400, FX 3500, overall composite 5.33; Dell Precision 390, FX 3500, overall composite 5.16.

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Posted at 09:27AM Nov 14, 2006 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags: graphics mcad opteron specapc sun w1100 w2100 woodcrest