Bench CFX/Fluent with xeon5520
 

I've run two different case (one Fluent with 1M cells and one with CFX with 2M cells) on single CPU's.
The results are:

Testcase: Fluent 6.2, MRF, ca 1M cells
Start with 200iter, measure from 150iter
Time CPU

23m30s core2 3.16GHz
24m36s xeon 3GHz
27m50s core2 3.0GHz
28m02s xeon5520(nehalem) 2.26GHz

29m43s core2 2.8GHz

Testcase: CFX 12, ca 2M cells 20iterations

Time CPU

1517s xeon5520 (nehalem) 2.26GHz

1296s xeon 3GHz
1603s core2 3.0GHz


Thus it seems that nehalem at 2.26GHz is similar to a core2 at 3GHz, I was expecting more from this CPU. Has anyone similar experiance?


/Jonas


Ps
core2 at 2.8Ghz is a oc e6300 (1.86GHz) with 800MHz DDR2

Ds

The strength of the Nehalem becomes evident when using more than one core on the CPU. Try the benchmarks by running a 2-way parallel run on each machine, or by running the benchmark on a machine where another job is running at the same time.

regards
hp

Thanks for the numbers! Interesting results.

:-)