FLUENT 6.3 benchmarks

External Flow Over a Truck Body
 

External flow case over a truck body. The case has around 14 million cells of mixed type and uses the DES model with the segregated implicit solver.

Number of cells
14,000,000
Cell type
mixed
Models
DES turbulence
Solver
segregated 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 TRUCK_14M 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 6.2 1.0 100%
4 1 16.8 2.7 68%
8 1 32.7 5.3 66%
16 2 65.3 10.5 66%
32 4 130.6 21.1 66%
64 8 256.5 41.4 65%
128 16 459.3 74.1 58%
HP BL460 (INTEL64_4CORE,3200,RHEL5,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 6.8 N/A N/A
1 1 7.5 1.0 100%
2 1 14.5 1.9 97%
4 1 24.5 3.3 82%
8 1 30.3 4.0 50%
16 2 59.6 7.9 50%
32 4 117.6 15.7 49%
64 8 234.1 31.2 49%
128 16 440.1 58.7 46%
HP DL160 (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5,IB_PCIE_GEN2) 6.3.35 16 2 66.8 N/A N/A
32 4 134.2 N/A N/A
64 8 265.0 N/A N/A
128 16 491.2 N/A N/A
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL64_HARPERTOWN_4CORE,3000,RHEL4) 6.3.26 serial 1 5.7 N/A N/A
1 1 6.2 1.0 100%
2 1 12.4 2.0 100%
8 1 32.1 5.2 65%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5.2,TRUESCALE_IB) 6.3.37 16 2 65.4 N/A N/A
32 4 132.0 N/A N/A
64 8 255.0 N/A N/A
128 16 490.1 N/A N/A
SGI ALTIX_ICE (INTEL64_CLOVERTOWN_4CORE,2600,LINUX,IB) 6.3.33 8 1 25.5 N/A N/A
16 2 52.6 N/A N/A
32 4 106.1 N/A N/A
64 8 208.3 N/A N/A
128 16 371.1 N/A N/A
256 32 473.9 N/A N/A
SUN X2250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3400,SLES10,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 7.2 N/A N/A
1 1 8.0 1.0 100%
2 1 15.8 2.0 99%
4 1 25.2 3.1 79%
8 2 51.2 6.4 80%
16 4 99.6 12.4 78%
32 8 196.5 24.6 77%
SUN X6250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3330,SLES10,IB) 6.3.26 serial 1 6.3 N/A N/A
1 1 7.0 1.0 100%
2 2 14.6 2.1 104%
4 4 29.9 4.3 107%
8 4 55.9 8.0 100%
16 4 78.9 11.3 70%