Description Of The Data - HP Visualize j6000 - Compute Farm Introduction

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July 25, 2000

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Description of the Data:

The graph below depicts the data from four different machines. This

competitive data is taken from the public benchmarks posted on the ANSYS

website

. These workloads are designed by ANSYS to gauge hardware

performance. Because these benchmarks are designed and published by

ANSYS they are hardware vendor independent. The hp visualize j6000

data is taken from a benchmark performed by the HP Technical Consulting

Lab; and is also available on the ANSYS

way dual-processor machines were chosen because of increased scalability

via thread based parallelism.

As the degrees of freedom in the benchmark increase, the complexity of the

model increases. Therefore, for the purpose of this paper, an increase in the

degrees of freedom equals an increase in complexity and more closely

represents the type of problems being solved today by large customers.

Looking at the difference between the machines at each separate degree of

freedom shows the relative performance of the competitor's machines

directly compared to that of the visualize j6000. It is important to note that

each data point should only be compared with other data points at the

same degrees of freedom, there is no relation between the j6000 at

23,658 degrees of freedom and the j6000 at 71,472 degrees of freedom.

The total elapsed time is normalized into a relative performance number by

dividing each time into the time for a reference system, in this case the hp

visualize j6000.

http://www.ANSYS.com/services/hardware_support/benchmarks/56/

website

. In our comparison, two-

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