FLUENT 6.3 benchmarks

Single-stage Turbomachinery Flow
 

Single stage turbomachinery flow case using the Spallart-Allmaras turbulence model and the coupled implicit solver. The case has around 500,000 cells of mixed type.

Number of cells
500,000
Cell type
mixed
Models
Spallart-Allmaras 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 TURBO_500K 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 1 379.9 1.0 100%
4 1 862.9 2.3 57%
8 1 1680.1 4.4 55%
16 2 3355.3 8.8 55%
32 4 6633.4 17.5 55%
64 8 11041.5 29.1 45%
HP BL460 (INTEL64_2CORE,3000,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 8 2 2000.0 N/A N/A
16 4 3789.5 N/A N/A
32 8 6830.0 N/A N/A
64 16 10441.1 N/A N/A
HP BL460 (INTEL64_4CORE,3200,RHEL5,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 446.3 N/A N/A
1 1 432.5 1.0 100%
2 1 773.5 1.8 89%
4 1 1216.5 2.8 70%
8 1 1529.9 3.5 44%
16 2 3061.1 7.1 44%
32 4 6388.2 14.8 46%
64 8 11715.3 27.1 42%
HP DL145_G3 (OPTERON_2CORE,2600,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3.26 serial 1 75.4 N/A N/A
1 1 110.4 1.0 100%
2 1 209.5 1.9 95%
4 1 357.9 3.2 81%
8 2 663.5 6.0 75%
16 4 1341.1 12.1 76%
32 8 2241.2 20.3 63%
64 16 3326.3 30.1 47%
HP DL160 (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5,IB_PCIE_GEN2) 6.3.35 16 2 3425.2 N/A N/A
32 4 7010.1 N/A N/A
64 8 13041.5 N/A N/A
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL64_HARPERTOWN_4CORE,3000,RHEL4) 6.3.26 serial 1 385.2 N/A N/A
1 1 382.6 1.0 100%
2 1 741.3 1.9 97%
8 1 1685.0 4.4 55%
MELLANOX_COLFAX CX1254 (OPTERON_4CORE,2000,RHEL5.1,CONNECTX_IB) 6.3.33 1 1 230.5 1.0 100%
2 1 452.7 2.0 98%
4 1 795.0 3.4 86%
8 1 1398.1 6.1 76%
16 2 2700.0 11.7 73%
24 3 4104.5 17.8 74%
32 4 5181.4 22.5 70%
40 5 6182.5 26.8 67%
48 6 7082.0 30.7 64%
56 7 7908.5 34.3 61%
MELLANOX_COLFAX CX1254 (OPTERON_4CORE,2000,RHEL5.1,GIGE) 6.3.33 1 1 230.7 1.0 100%
2 1 452.7 2.0 98%
4 1 795.8 3.4 86%
8 1 1399.8 6.1 76%
16 2 2335.1 10.1 63%
24 3 2921.4 12.7 53%
32 4 3269.6 14.2 44%
40 5 3469.9 15.0 38%
48 6 3748.4 16.2 34%
56 7 4009.3 17.4 31%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,RHEL5.2,TRUESCALE_IB) 6.3.37 1 1 397.9 1.0 100%
2 1 725.0 1.8 91%
4 1 1241.8 3.1 78%
8 1 1678.5 4.2 53%
16 2 3388.2 8.5 53%
32 4 6939.8 17.4 55%
64 8 12752.8 32.1 50%
SGI ALTIX_ICE (INTEL64_CLOVERTOWN_4CORE,2600,LINUX,IB) 6.3.33 8 1 1301.2 N/A N/A
16 2 2581.0 N/A N/A
32 4 4867.6 N/A N/A
64 8 8112.7 N/A N/A
SUN X2250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3400,SLES10,IB) 6.3.35 serial 1 465.6 N/A N/A
1 1 461.9 1.0 100%
2 1 874.1 1.9 95%
4 1 1319.6 2.9 71%
8 2 2581.0 5.6 70%
16 4 4860.8 10.5 66%
32 8 9494.5 20.6 64%
SUN X6250 (INTEL64_2CORE,3330,SLES10,IB) 6.3.26 serial 1 441.3 N/A N/A
1 1 440.4 1.0 100%
2 2 823.1 1.9 93%
4 4 1590.4 3.6 90%
8 4 2805.2 6.4 80%
16 4 3744.3 8.5 53%