Manufacturing Application Benchmarks
Intel® Xeon® processor 3600 series
Intel® Xeon® processor 3600 series-based professional workstations deliver intelligent, high performance for engineers, animators, and analysts.
STAR-CD* v4.12
Benchmark description
STAR-CD* provides a platform for industrial CFD simulation. Going beyond just a CFD code, the latest release, STAR-CD V4, introduces the capability to perform structural analysis calculations using a methodology based upon its CFD solver technology, a comprehensive solution for flow, thermal and stress simulation has been available in a single general-purpose commercial finite-volume code. STAR-CD V4 is fully polyhedra enabled and by using the latest polyhedra-solver technology, STAR-CD V4 delivers significant benefits in speed, robustness and usability. Workloads for STAR-CD (A-class, C-class): The key workloads for STAR-CD benchmark are A-Class and C-Class. The A-class (resp. C-class) workloads simulate the turbulent, steady-state flow around an A-Class (resp. C-class) Mercedes* car. Both workloads use the Conjugate Gradient Solver. A-class uses a trimmed hexahedral mesh made of six million cells while C-class uses a polyhedral mesh of 10 million cells.
Configuration details
STAR-CD* v4.12
Benchmark: STAR-CD* V4.12
Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Software Development Platform D3CA2 with one Intel® Xeon® processor W3580 (3.33GHz, 8MB L3 Cache,6.4GT/s QPI,D0 stepping, 130W TDP, HT enabled, Turbo enabled, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology-enabled, C1E enabled), BIOS version SOX5810J.86A.4849.2010.0112.0827, 12GB (3x4GB DDR3-1333 ECC UDIMM) memory, one NVIDIA Quadro* FX5800, NVIDIA* graphic driver version 191.78 (using 3D APP-default global settings, vertical sync off), one 21" LCD display (1280x1024, 32bit color quality, 75Hz), one 74GB 10000RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s hard disk, Microsoft Windows XP* Professional x64 Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of January 2010. Score: 185.4 Jobs/day.
New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Software Development Platform D3CA2 with one Intel® Xeon® processor W3680 (3.33GHz, 12MB L3 Cache, 6.4GT/s QPI, B0 stepping, 130W TDP, HT enabled, Turbo enabled, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology-enabled, C1E enabled), BIOS version SOX5810J.86A.4849.2010.0112.0827, 12GB (3x4GB DDR3-1333 ECC UDIMM) memory, one NVIDIA Quadro* FX5800, NVIDIA* graphic driver version 191.87 (using 3D APP-default global settings, vertical sync off), one 21" LCD display (1280x1024, 32bit color quality, 75Hz), one 74GB 10000RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s hard disk, Microsoft Windows XP* Professional x64 Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of January 2010. Score: 204.7 Jobs/day.
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