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FLUENT v6.3 benchmarks

External Flow Over an Aircraft Wing
 

External flow over an aircraft wing. The case has around 1.8 million hexahedral cells and uses the realizable k-epsilon model and the coupled implicit solver.

Number of cells
1,800,000
Cell type
hexahedral
Models
realizable k-eps turbulence
Solver
coupled implicit

Plots

Serial
Parallel

Results

In the table below, a rating listed in red corresponds to the redzone result, and one in bold is a peak result. Bold red is used to indicate that the run was both the peak and redzone result.

Results are listed alphabetically by platform, within each FLUENT version.

 

Platform AIRCRAFT_2M RATINGS
FLUENT Version CPUs or Cores Machines or Blocks Rating Speedup Efficiency
BULL NOVASCALE_R422 (INTEL64_4CORE,2800,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 1 1 83.4 1.0 100%
4 1 168.6 2.0 51%
8 1 320.4 3.8 48%
16 2 629.5 7.5 47%
32 4 1192.5 14.3 45%
64 8 1815.1 21.8 34%
HP BL460 (INTEL64_2CORE,3000,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 8 2 412.1 N/A N/A
16 4 787.8 N/A N/A
32 8 1536.7 N/A N/A
64 16 2229.7 N/A N/A
HP BL460 (INTEL64_4CORE,3200,RHEL5,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 97.1 N/A N/A
1 1 94.9 1.0 100%
2 1 171.7 1.8 90%
4 1 252.5 2.7 67%
8 1 281.1 3.0 37%
16 2 550.3 5.8 36%
32 4 1076.0 11.3 35%
64 8 1728.9 18.2 28%
128 16 2421.9 25.5 20%
HP DL145_G3 (OPTERON_2CORE,2600,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 serial 1 53.4 N/A N/A
1 1 57.7 1.0 100%
2 1 107.9 1.9 94%
4 1 197.4 3.4 86%
8 2 408.5 7.1 88%
16 4 780.3 13.5 85%
32 8 1485.8 25.8 80%
64 16 1960.3 34.0 53%
128 32 2332.0 40.4 32%
HP DL160 (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5,IB_PCIE_GEN2) 6.3.35 16 2 637.5 N/A N/A
32 4 1222.1 N/A N/A
64 8 1986.2 N/A N/A
128 16 2877.6 N/A N/A
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL64_HARPERTOWN_4CORE,3000,RHEL4) 6.3.26 serial 1 85.0 N/A N/A
1 1 84.2 1.0 100%
2 1 162.9 1.9 97%
8 1 321.0 3.8 48%
MELLANOX_COLFAX CX1254 (OPTERON_4CORE,2000,RHEL5.1,CONNECTX_IB) 6.3.33 1 1 47.8 1.0 100%
2 1 97.6 2.0 102%
4 1 180.2 3.8 94%
8 1 289.0 6.0 76%
16 2 574.6 12.0 75%
24 3 794.5 16.6 69%
32 4 1002.0 21.0 66%
40 5 1207.1 25.3 63%
48 6 1434.6 30.0 63%
56 7 1598.5 33.4 60%
MELLANOX_COLFAX CX1254 (OPTERON_4CORE,2000,RHEL5.1,GIGE) 6.3.33 1 1 48.1 1.0 100%
2 1 97.9 2.0 102%
4 1 180.9 3.8 94%
8 1 292.4 6.1 76%
16 2 497.3 10.3 65%
24 3 611.6 12.7 53%
32 4 715.5 14.9 46%
40 5 794.3 16.5 41%
48 6 903.5 18.8 39%
56 7 957.6 19.9 36%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5.2,TRUESCALE_IB) 6.3.37 1 1 86.1 1.0 100%
2 1 163.4 1.9 95%
4 1 269.2 3.1 78%
8 1 319.8 3.7 46%
16 2 629.4 7.3 46%
32 4 1210.1 14.1 44%
64 8 1978.2 23.0 36%
128 16 2926.3 34.0 27%
SGI ALTIX_ICE (INTEL64_CLOVERTOWN_4CORE,2600,LINUX,IB) 6.3.33 8 1 251.6 N/A N/A
16 2 495.8 N/A N/A
32 4 937.9 N/A N/A
64 8 1476.9 N/A N/A
128 16 1802.8 N/A N/A
SUN X2250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3400,SLES10,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 101.8 N/A N/A
1 1 101.4 1.0 100%
2 1 195.1 1.9 96%
4 1 279.2 2.8 69%
8 2 525.3 5.2 65%
16 4 985.7 9.7 61%
32 8 1820.9 18.0 56%
SUN X6250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3330,SLES10,IB) 6.3.26 serial 1 97.2 N/A N/A
1 1 96.6 1.0 100%
2 2 180.5 1.9 93%
4 4 354.1 3.7 92%
8 4 577.1 6.0 75%
16 4 682.9 7.1 44%