Abaqus/Standard 6.8-1 - Performance on Intel® Xeon® processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem) 2.93GHz vs Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) 3.0GHz in SGI Altix ICE 8200EX.

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/Standard is in average 1.31x faster on Intel Xeon processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem) 2.93GHz vs Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) 3.0GHz in SGI Altix ICE 8200EX. S3a is a Lanczos eigensolver job and depends on the memory bandwidth.

Abaqus/Standard 6.8-1 – Parallel Performance on SGI Altix ICE

SGI Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel Xeon processor E5570 (code-named Nehalem) 2.93GHz is 2x faster than AMD Shanghai and 1.36x faster than Intel Xeon processor E5472 (code-named Harpertown) clusters.