The CUBE machines that I used in this ANSYS Test Case represent a fine balance based on price, performance and ANSYS HPC licenses used.
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- ANSYS Benchmark Test Case Information.
- ANSYS HPC Licensing Packs required for this benchmark
- I used (2) HPC Packs to unlock all 32 cores.
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Figure 1 – ANSYS benchmark data from three excellent machines.
BGA (V17sp-5)
| BGA (V17sp-5) | ||
| Analysis Type | Static Nonlinear Structural | |
| Number of Degrees of Freedom | 6,000,000 | |
| Equation Solver | Sparse | |
| Matrix | Symmetric | |
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Pro Tip –> Lastly, please check out this article by Greg Corke one of my friends at ANSYS, Inc. I am using the ANSYS benchmark data fromthe Lenovo Thinkstation P910 as a baseline for my benchmark data. Enjoy Greg’s article here!
- The CPU Information
The benchmark data is derived off of the running through the BGA (sp-5) ANSYS test case. CPU’s and how they perform with one of the very latest ANSYS releases, ANSYS Release 17.1.
- It Is All About The Data
- Only one workstation was used for the data in this ANSYS Test Case
- No GPU Accelerator cards are used for the data
- Solution solve times are in seconds
| ANSYS 17.1 Benchmark | BGA v17sp-5 | |||
| Lenovo ThinkStation P910 2680 V4 | CUBE w16i 2667 V4 | CUBE w32i 2697A V4 | ||
| Cores | Customer X – 28 Core @2.4GHz/ea | CUBE w16i | CUBE w132i | tS |
| 2 | 1016 | 380.9 | 989.6 | 1.03 |
| 4 | 626 | 229.6 | 551.1 | 1.14 |
| 8 | 461 | 168.7 | 386.6 | 1.19 |
| 12 | 323 | 160.7 | 250.5 | 1.29 |
| 16 | 265 | 161.7 | 203.3 | 1.30 |
| 20 | 261 | 0 | 176.9 | 1.48 |
| 24 | 246 | 0 | 158.1 | 1.56 |
| 28 | 327 | 0 | 151.8 | 2.15 |
| 31 | 0 | 0 | 145.2 | 2.25 |
| 32 | 0 | 0 | 161.7 | 2.02 |
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Cube w16i Workstation – Windows 10 Professional 1 x 4U CUBE APPLIANCE 2 x 8c @3.2GHz/ea Dual Socket motherboard 256GB DDR4-2400 MHz LRDIMM 6 x 600GB SAS3 15k RPM NVIDIA QUADRO K6000 -
CUBE w32i Workstation – Windows 10 Professional 1 x 4U CUBE APPLIANCE 2 x 16c @2.6GHz/ea Dual Socket motherboard 256GB DDR4-2400 MHz LRDIMM 2 x 600GB SAS3 15k RPM NVIDIA QUADRO M4000 -
Lenovo Thinkstation P910 Workstation – Windows 10 Professional
Lenovo P910 Workstation 2 x 14c @2.4GHz/ea Dual Socket motherboard 128GB DDR4-2400 MHz 512GB NVMe SSD / 2 x 4TB SATA HDD / 512GB SATA SSD NVIDIA QUADRO M2000
As you will may have noticed above, the CUBE workstation with the Intel Xeon e5-2697A V4 had the fastest solution solve time for one workstation.
- *** Using 31 cores the CUBE w32i finished the sp-5 test case in 145.2 seconds.
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