FLUENT 12.0 beta 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
AMD CLUSTER (AMD64_BARCELONA_4CORE,2300,LINUX,IB) 12.0.7 2 1 94.0 N/A N/A
4 1 174.3 N/A N/A
8 1 283.0 N/A N/A
16 2 567.6 N/A N/A
32 4 1111.3 N/A N/A
64 8 2107.3 N/A N/A
AMD CLUSTER (AMD64_SHANGHAI_4CORE,2700,LINUX,IB) 12.0.7 2 1 119.9 N/A N/A
4 1 213.0 N/A N/A
8 1 353.3 N/A N/A
16 2 683.0 N/A N/A
32 4 1360.6 N/A N/A
64 8 2634.1 N/A N/A
BULL NOVASCALE_R422 (INTEL64_4CORE,2800,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 12.0.3 1 1 59.0 1.0 100%
4 1 177.9 3.0 75%
8 1 211.4 3.6 45%
16 2 426.2 7.2 45%
32 4 864.2 14.6 46%
64 8 1683.4 28.5 45%
128 16 2324.1 39.4 31%
HP BL465C (AMD64_BARCELONA_4CORE,2300,WINHPC08,IB) 12.0.15 1 1 44.4 1.0 100%
2 1 83.8 1.9 94%
4 1 140.1 3.2 79%
8 1 279.2 6.3 79%
16 2 554.0 12.5 78%
32 4 1061.8 23.9 75%
64 8 1998.8 45.0 70%
128 16 2677.0 60.3 47%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5482_HTN4,3200,RHEL5) 12.0.13 serial 1 57.9 N/A N/A
1 1 59.5 1.0 100%
2 1 118.2 2.0 99%
4 1 184.2 3.1 77%
8 1 212.3 3.6 45%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5482_HTN4,3200,RHEL5,IB) 12.0.13 serial 1 55.7 N/A N/A
1 1 57.1 1.0 100%
2 1 112.3 2.0 98%
4 1 175.7 3.1 77%
8 1 206.6 3.6 45%
16 2 419.7 7.4 46%
32 4 866.2 15.2 47%
64 8 1704.1 29.8 47%
128 16 3332.7 58.4 46%
256 32 5358.1 93.8 37%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5560_NHM4,2800,RHEL5,IB) 12.0.13 serial 1 102.6 N/A N/A
1 1 106.2 1.0 100%
2 1 214.2 2.0 101%
4 1 392.2 3.7 92%
8 1 644.9 6.1 76%
16 2 1278.6 12.0 75%
32 4 2465.0 23.2 73%
64 8 4614.2 43.4 68%
128 16 6582.9 62.0 48%
256 32 8793.9 82.8 32%
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL_X5570_NHM4,2930,RHEL5) 12.0.13 serial 1 105.6 N/A N/A
1 1 98.0 1.0 100%
2 1 201.8 2.1 103%
4 1 367.7 3.8 94%
8 1 642.5 6.6 82%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (AMD64_BARCELONA_4CORE,2500,RH5.2,IB_TRUESCALE) 12.0.15 1 1 48.0 1.0 100%
4 1 179.6 3.7 94%
8 1 294.1 6.1 77%
16 2 587.4 12.2 76%
32 4 1153.2 24.0 75%
64 8 2197.1 45.8 72%
128 16 3494.4 72.8 57%
256 32 4965.5 103.4 40%
QLOGIC CLUSTER (INTEL_X5472_HTN4,3000,RH5.2,IB_TRUESCALE) 12.0.15 2 1 124.7 N/A N/A
4 1 187.7 N/A N/A
8 1 217.0 N/A N/A
16 2 438.0 N/A N/A
32 4 896.0 N/A N/A
64 8 1768.7 N/A N/A
128 16 3432.0 N/A N/A
256 32 5325.1 N/A N/A
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200EX (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,LINUX,IB) 12.0.9 serial 1 58.7 N/A N/A
1 1 61.0 1.0 100%
2 1 121.9 2.0 100%
4 1 185.1 3.0 76%
8 1 217.1 3.6 44%
16 2 440.3 7.2 45%
32 4 904.2 14.8 46%
64 8 1787.9 29.3 46%
128 16 3435.4 56.3 44%
256 32 5477.0 89.8 35%
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200EX (INTEL64_4CORE,3000,LINUX,IB_2RAIL) 12.0.9 1 1 61.0 1.0 100%
2 1 121.9 2.0 100%
4 1 185.1 3.0 76%
8 1 217.1 3.6 44%
16 2 440.2 7.2 45%
32 4 905.2 14.8 46%
64 8 1794.4 29.4 46%
128 16 3442.2 56.4 44%
256 32 5494.4 90.1 35%
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200IP95 (INTEL_X5570_NHM4,2930,SLES10,IB) 12.0.9 1 1 103.5 1.0 100%
2 1 209.5 2.0 101%
4 1 386.4 3.7 93%
8 1 639.1 6.2 77%
16 2 1264.1 12.2 76%
32 4 2445.9 23.6 74%
64 8 4224.9 40.8 64%
128 16 6249.5 60.4 47%
256 32 8388.3 81.0 32%
SGI ALTIX_ICE_8200IP95 (INTEL_X5570_NHM4_TURBO,2930,SLES10,IB) 12.0.9 1 1 111.2 1.0 100%
2 1 226.4 2.0 102%
4 1 412.6 3.7 93%
8 1 651.0 5.9 73%
16 2 1211.8 10.9 68%
32 4 2405.0 21.6 68%
64 8 4352.6 39.1 61%
128 16 6238.3 56.1 44%
256 32 8749.4 78.7 31%