Mathematical theories on hardware performance

Well, the title is incomplete... the idea here is to gather the links to the posts where I try to correlate hardware performance versus computational performance with CFD software.

Posts where I've tried to do the math:

• http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/har...tml#post527354 post #3
• http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/har...tml#post523854 post #18
• http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/har...tml#post520919

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