FLUENT 6.3 benchmarks

External Flow Over a Passenger Sedan
 

External flow over a passenger sedan. The case has around 3.6 million cells of mixed type and uses a k-epsilon model with the pressure-based coupled solver.

Number of cells
3,600,000
Cell type
mixed
Models
k-eps turbulence
Solver
pressure-based 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 SEDAN_4M 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 56.4 1.0 100%
4 1 105.5 1.9 47%
8 1 207.9 3.7 46%
16 2 416.2 7.4 46%
32 4 854.8 15.2 47%
64 8 1621.8 28.8 45%
128 16 2363.9 41.9 33%
HP BL460 (INTEL64_2CORE,3000,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 8 2 283.1 N/A N/A
16 4 554.8 N/A N/A
32 8 1109.5 N/A N/A
64 16 2047.4 N/A N/A
HP BL460 (INTEL64_4CORE,3200,RHEL5,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 63.3 N/A N/A
1 1 63.6 1.0 100%
2 1 113.1 1.8 89%
4 1 161.7 2.5 64%
8 1 176.8 2.8 35%
16 2 357.9 5.6 35%
32 4 739.9 11.6 36%
64 8 1484.5 23.3 36%
128 16 2291.8 36.0 28%
HP DL145_G3 (OPTERON_2CORE,2600,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 serial 1 36.2 N/A N/A
1 1 34.9 1.0 100%
2 1 77.9 2.2 112%
4 1 135.0 3.9 97%
8 2 277.3 7.9 99%
16 4 535.3 15.3 96%
32 8 1046.0 30.0 94%
64 16 1939.4 55.6 87%
HP DL160 (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5,IB_PCIE_GEN2) 6.3.35 16 2 417.0 N/A N/A
32 4 867.0 N/A N/A
64 8 1724.6 N/A N/A
128 16 2683.2 N/A N/A
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL64_HARPERTOWN_4CORE,3000,RHEL4) 6.3.26 serial 1 54.4 N/A N/A
1 1 55.9 1.0 100%
2 1 109.6 2.0 98%
8 1 207.2 3.7 46%
MELLANOX_COLFAX CX1254 (OPTERON_4CORE,2000,RHEL5.1,CONNECTX_IB) 6.3.33 1 1 38.7 1.0 100%
2 1 77.2 2.0 100%
4 1 144.6 3.7 93%
8 1 249.8 6.5 81%
16 2 488.4 12.6 79%
24 3 692.6 17.9 75%
32 4 918.9 23.7 74%
40 5 1146.3 29.6 74%
48 6 1273.9 32.9 69%
56 7 1503.3 38.8 69%
MELLANOX_COLFAX CX1254 (OPTERON_4CORE,2000,RHEL5.1,GIGE) 6.3.33 1 1 35.2 1.0 100%
2 1 73.3 2.1 104%
4 1 136.4 3.9 97%
8 1 245.1 7.0 87%
16 2 420.2 11.9 75%
24 3 580.2 16.5 69%
32 4 718.1 20.4 64%
40 5 835.0 23.7 59%
48 6 931.8 26.5 55%
56 7 1013.8 28.8 51%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5.2,TRUESCALE_IB) 6.3.37 1 1 58.6 1.0 100%
2 1 108.9 1.9 93%
4 1 173.8 3.0 74%
8 1 205.9 3.5 44%
16 2 411.5 7.0 44%
32 4 848.3 14.5 45%
64 8 1688.3 28.8 45%
128 16 2662.6 45.4 35%
SGI ALTIX_ICE (INTEL64_CLOVERTOWN_4CORE,2600,LINUX,IB) 6.3.33 8 1 162.6 N/A N/A
16 2 325.9 N/A N/A
32 4 651.2 N/A N/A
64 8 1262.2 N/A N/A
128 16 1897.9 N/A N/A
SUN X2250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3400,SLES10,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 66.2 N/A N/A
1 1 67.9 1.0 100%
2 1 132.8 2.0 98%
4 1 179.8 2.6 66%
8 2 359.3 5.3 66%
16 4 694.4 10.2 64%
32 8 1353.7 19.9 62%
SUN X6250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3330,SLES10,IB) 6.3.26 serial 1 63.7 N/A N/A
1 1 65.2 1.0 100%
2 2 122.5 1.9 94%
4 4 247.7 3.8 95%
8 4 391.9 6.0 75%
16 4 447.2 6.9 43%