FLUENT 12.0 beta 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
AMD CLUSTER (AMD64_BARCELONA_4CORE,2300,LINUX,IB) 12.0.7 2 1 119.5 N/A N/A
4 1 221.3 N/A N/A
8 1 338.3 N/A N/A
16 2 617.4 N/A N/A
32 4 1062.4 N/A N/A
64 8 1927.5 N/A N/A
AMD CLUSTER (AMD64_SHANGHAI_4CORE,2700,LINUX,IB) 12.0.7 2 1 153.0 N/A N/A
4 1 272.2 N/A N/A
8 1 420.4 N/A N/A
16 2 689.5 N/A N/A
32 4 1317.1 N/A N/A
64 8 2385.1 N/A N/A
BULL NOVASCALE_R422 (INTEL64_4CORE,2800,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 12.0.3 1 1 91.4 1.0 100%
4 1 281.2 3.1 77%
8 1 336.0 3.7 46%
16 2 655.4 7.2 45%
32 4 1254.9 13.7 43%
64 8 1902.0 20.8 33%
HP BL465C (AMD64_BARCELONA_4CORE,2300,WINHPC08,IB) 12.0.15 1 1 65.7 1.0 100%
2 1 122.9 1.9 94%
4 1 208.0 3.2 79%
8 1 371.3 5.7 71%
16 2 731.9 11.1 70%
32 4 1326.7 20.2 63%
64 8 2151.9 32.8 51%
128 16 3159.0 48.1 38%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5482_HTN4,3200,RHEL5) 12.0.13 serial 1 102.9 N/A N/A
1 1 92.6 1.0 100%
2 1 179.0 1.9 97%
4 1 275.7 3.0 74%
8 1 307.6 3.3 42%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5482_HTN4,3200,RHEL5,IB) 12.0.13 serial 1 101.1 N/A N/A
1 1 90.1 1.0 100%
2 1 173.4 1.9 96%
4 1 267.1 3.0 74%
8 1 301.2 3.3 42%
16 2 567.2 6.3 39%
32 4 1175.5 13.0 41%
64 8 1871.1 20.8 32%
128 16 3449.1 38.3 30%
256 32 4341.7 48.2 19%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5560_NHM4,2800,RHEL5,IB) 12.0.13 serial 1 144.6 N/A N/A
1 1 137.4 1.0 100%
2 1 266.1 1.9 97%
4 1 490.8 3.6 89%
8 1 777.9 5.7 71%
16 2 1428.1 10.4 65%
32 4 2837.4 20.7 65%
64 8 5220.5 38.0 59%
128 16 7981.5 58.1 45%
256 32 10347.3 75.3 29%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5570_NHM4,2930,RHEL5) 12.0.13 serial 1 150.2 N/A N/A
1 1 126.6 1.0 100%
2 1 248.9 2.0 98%
4 1 463.8 3.7 92%
8 1 784.9 6.2 77%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (AMD64_BARCELONA_4CORE,2500,RH5.2,IB_TRUESCALE) 12.0.15 1 1 66.7 1.0 100%
4 1 237.6 3.6 89%
8 1 363.6 5.5 68%
16 2 660.0 9.9 62%
32 4 1358.0 20.4 64%
64 8 2600.5 39.0 61%
128 16 3949.7 59.2 46%
256 32 5358.1 80.3 31%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (INTEL_X5472_HTN4,3000,RH5.2,IB_TRUESCALE) 12.0.15 1 1 93.8 1.0 100%
4 1 276.4 2.9 74%
8 1 310.0 3.3 41%
16 2 578.8 6.2 39%
32 4 1072.3 11.4 36%
64 8 2634.1 28.1 44%
128 16 4547.4 48.5 38%
256 32 6582.9 70.2 27%
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200EX (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,LINUX,IB_2RAIL) 12.0.9 1 1 94.0 1.0 100%
2 1 182.6 1.9 97%
4 1 275.4 2.9 73%
8 1 312.0 3.3 41%
16 2 629.7 6.7 42%
32 4 1180.3 12.6 39%
64 8 2065.8 22.0 34%
128 16 4413.8 47.0 37%
256 32 5647.1 60.1 23%
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200IP95 (INTEL_X5570_NHM4,2930,SLES10,IB) 12.0.9 1 1 122.1 1.0 100%
2 1 263.9 2.2 108%
4 1 483.6 4.0 99%
8 1 815.5 6.7 83%
16 2 1407.7 11.5 72%
32 4 2588.8 21.2 66%
64 8 3724.1 30.5 48%
128 16 6697.7 54.9 43%
256 32 8727.3 71.5 28%
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200IP95 (INTEL_X5570_NHM4_TURBO,2930,SLES10,IB) 12.0.9 1 1 147.3 1.0 100%
2 1 289.0 2.0 98%
4 1 526.9 3.6 89%
8 1 843.3 5.7 72%
16 2 1507.9 10.2 64%
32 4 2563.8 17.4 54%
64 8 4614.2 31.3 49%
128 16 6789.8 46.1 36%
256 32 8749.4 59.4 23%