Wow? yet another ANSYS Bench marking blog post? I know, but I have had four blog posts in limbo for months. There is no better time than now and since it is Friday. Time to knock out another one of these fine looking ANSYS 17.2 bench marking results of my list!
The ANSYS 17.2 CFX External Flow Over a LeMans Car Test Case
…dun dun dah!
The ANSYS CFX test case has approximately 1.8 million nodes
- 10 million elements, all tetrahedral
- Solves compressible fluid flow with heat transfer using the k-epsilon turbulence model.
ANSYS Benchmark Test Case Information
- ANSYS HPC Licensing Packs required for this benchmark
- I used (3) HPC Packs to unlock all 56 cores of the CUBE a56i.
- The fastest solve time goes to the CUBE a56i – Boom!
- From start to finish a total of forty-six (46) ticks on the clock on the wall occurred.
- A total of fifty-five (55) cores in use between two twenty-eight (28) core nodes.
- Windows 2012 R2 Standard Edition w/HPC update 3
- MS-MPI v7.1
- ANSYS CFX 17.2
- Please contact your local ANSYS Software Sales Representative for more information on purchasing ANSYS HPC Packs. You too may be able to speed up your solve times by unlocking additional compute power!
- What is a CUBE? For more information regarding our Numerical Simulation workstations and clusters please contact our CUBE Hardware Sales Representative at SALES@PADTINC.COM Designed, tested and configured within your budget. We are happy to help and to listen to your specific needs.
Figure 1 – ANSYS CFX benchmark data for the tetrahedral, 10 million elements External Flow Over a LeMans Car Test Case
ANSYS CFX Test Case Details – Click Here for more information on this benchmark
| External Flow Over a LeMans Car | |
| Number of nodes | 1,864,025 |
| Element type | Tetrahedral |
| Models | k-epsilon Turbulence, Heat Transfer |
| Solver | Coupled Implicit |
The CPU Information
The benchmark data is derived off of the running through the ANSYS CFX External Flow Over a LeMans Car test case. Take a minute or three to look at how these CPU’s perform with one of the very latest ANSYS releases, ANSYS Release 17.1 & ANSYS Release 17.2.
- Intel® Xeon® e5-2697a V4
- Intel® Xeon® e5-2690 V4
Wall Clock Time!
I have focused and tuned the numerical simulation machines with a focus on wall clock time for years now. What is funny if you ask Eric Miller we were talking about wall clock times this morning.
What is wall clock time? Simply put –> How does the solve time FEEL to the engineer…..yes, i just equated a feeling to a non-human event. Ah yes, to feel…oh and I was reminded of old Van Halen song where David Lee Roth says.
“Oh man, I think the clock is slow.
I don’t feel tardy.
Class Dismissed!”
The CUBE phenomenon
| CUBE a56i Appliance – Windows 2012 R2 Standard w/HPC |
| 1U CUBE APPLIANCE (2 x 28) |
| 4 x 14c @2.6GHz/ea – Intel® Xeon® e5-2690 V4 |
| Dual Socket motherboard |
| 256GB DDR4-2400 MHz LRDIMM |
| 4 x 600GB SAS3 15k RPM |
| 56Gbps Infiniband FDR CPU High Speed Interconnect |
| 10Gbps Ethernet Low Latency |
| CUBE w32i Workstation – Windows 10 Professional |
| 1 x 4U CUBE APPLIANCE |
| 2 x 16c @2.6GHz/ea – Intel® Xeon® e5-2697a V4 |
| Dual Socket motherboard |
| 256GB DDR4-2400 MHz LRDIMM |
| 2 x 600GB SAS3 15k RPM |
| NVIDIA QUADRO M4000 |
It Is All About The Data
| 11/17/2016
PADT, Inc. – Tempe, AZ |
ANSYS CFX 17.1 | ANSYS CFX 17.1 | ANSYS CFX 17.2 | |
| Total wall clock time | Cores | CUBE w32i | CUBE a56i | CUBE a56i |
| 2 | 555 | 636 | 609 | |
| 4 | 304 | 332 | 332 | |
| 8 | 153 | 191 | 191 | |
| 16 | 105 | 120 | 120 | |
| 24 | 78 | 84 | 84 | |
| 32 | 73 | 68 | 68 | |
| 38 | 0 | 61 | 59 | |
| 42 | 0 | 55 | 55 | |
| 48 | 0 | 51 | 51 | |
| 52 | 0 | 52 | 48 | |
| 55 | 0 | 47 | 46 | |
| 56 | 0 | 52 | 51 |
Picture Sharing Time!
Check out the pictures below of the Microsoft Server 2012 R2 HPC Cluster Manager.
I used the Windows Server 2012 R2 on both of the two compute nodes that make up the CUBE a56i.
Microsoft 2012 R2 w/HPC – is very quick, and oh so very powerful!
Please be safe out there in the wilds, you are all dismissed for the weekend!
