Abaqus/Explicit 6.8-1 - Performance on Intel® Xeon® processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem) 2.93GHz vs. Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) in SGI Altix ICE 82000EX.

SGI Altix ICE 8200EX Intel Xeon processor X5472 3.0 GHz, Seaburg 1600 8x2GB 800 MHz DDR2

SGI Altix ICE 8200EX Intel Xeon processor 5570 2.93GHz, 6.4 GT/s, 12x4GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Abaqus/Explicit is in average 1.84x faster on Intel Xeon processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem 2.93 GHz vs Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) 3.0GHz.

Abaqus/Explicit 6.8-1 – Parallel Performance on Intel Xeon processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem) 2.93GHz vs. Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) in SGI Altix ICE 8200

Abaqus/Explicit is 1.88x faster on 8 cores and 1.76x on 32 cores Intel Xeon processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem) 2.93GHz than Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) 3.0GHz in SGI Altix ICE 8200EX. Further, SGI Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel Xeon E5570 is 1.59x faster than AMD Shanghai 2.70GHz.