HP Visualize j6000 Introduction Manual
Application
Performance
Brief
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Author:
Troy Heber, HP
Technical Consulting Lab
troy_heber@hp.com
“The Harder You Work, the Better we
“The Harder You Work, the Better we
“The Harder You Work, the Better we“The Harder You Work, the Better we
Perform” : ANSYS
Perform” : ANSYS
Perform” : ANSYSPerform” : ANSYS
As the complexity of the problem increases, so
does the performance of HP Visualize
Workstations utilizing PA-RISC architecture.
Introduction:
Introduction:
Introduction:Introduction:
You already know that Hewlett Packard Visualize Workstations are
performance leaders in the industry, an d have be e n sin ce the ir introduction.
What you may not know is that Visualize Workstations perform bette r than
our competition on the toughest problems. As the complexity of the
problem increases, so does the performance of HP Visualize Workstations
utilizing PA-RISC architecture. The concept “the harder you work the better
we perform” can be demonstrated with ANSYS Multiphysics.
With a long-standing global partnership, HP and ANSYS continue to offer a
total collaborative engineering solution to customers -- providing the right
tool for the right job. ANSYS offers a wide range of solutions beginning
with the CAD integrated DesignSpace product to the mid-range, easy-to-use
ANSYS/Professional product to full ANSYS/Multiphysics. No matter what
the ANSYS application, HP has the platform of choice , from NT and UN IX
workstations to high-end scalable UNIX servers.
ANSYS and HP provide ongoing support for joint customers. Benc hm arks
are performed to show that ANSYS code is continually being optimize d to
take advantage of new architectures. One of the fac t ors that enabl es
ANSYS users to solve larger problems faster and cheaper is the non-stop
improvement in computational power driving the high-tech industry. HewlettPackard's 64-bit Precision Architecture RISC microprocessors (PA-8x00)
achieved leadership performance for ANSYS 5. 5 with the in troduc tion of
the PA-8500 chip in 1999. The UNIX and NT workstations and servers
introduced in 2000, along with ANSYS 5.6.1 extend the benefits of the
HP/ANSYS solution to even higher levels by increased optimizations .
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Description of the Data:
Description of the Data:
Description of the Data:Description of the Data:
The graph below depicts the data from four differe nt machines. This
competitive data is taken from the public ben chmarks posted on the ANSYS
1
website
. These workloads are designed by ANSYS to gauge hardware
performance. Because these benchmarks are designed and publishe d by
ANSYS they are hardware vendor independent. The hp visualize j6000
data is taken from a benchmark performed by the HP Techn ic al Con sulting
2
Lab; and is also available on the ANSYS website
. In our comparison, twoway dual-processor machines were chosen bec ause of increase d sc al ability
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 l arge custome r s.
Looking at the difference between the machines at e ach se parate de gree 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.
1
http://www.ANSYS.com/services/hardware_support/benchmarks/56/
2
http://www.ANSYS.com/services/hardware_support/benchmarks/56/
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