Intel® Xeon® processor E3 family
Small business servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family deliver outstanding performance at a great value, enabling small businesses to manage their IT investments smarter.
High Performance Computing
- Computational chemistry performance using Amber*
- Computational fluid dynamics performance using Fluent*
- Crash simulation analysis using LS-DYNA*
Computational fluid dynamics analysis using STAR-CD*
Computational chemistry performance using Amber*
Jobs/day normalized to 1.0 baseline of Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 performance
Benchmark description for Star-CD* 4.12
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. See www.cd-adapco.com/products/star_cd/index.html for more information. Benchmark: www.cd-adapco.com/products/star_cd/performance/406/index.html.
Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family
Intel estimates as of January 2011.
45nm Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 platform (score 1.00)
Intel® Server Board S3420GP with one Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 (quad-core, 3.06GHz, 8MB L3 cache), Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, 8GB memory (4x 2GB DDR3-1333 REG ECC), 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 for x86_64. Source: Intel estimates as of May 2010. Score of A-Class-modified: 166.8 jobs/day.
32nm Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1280 platform (score 1.21)
Intel® C206 chipset with one Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1280 (quad-core, 3.5GHz, 8MB L3 cache), Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, 8GB memory (2x 4GB DDR3-1333 Unbuffered ECC), 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 for x86_64 with kernel 2.6.35.10. Source: Intel estimates as of Jan 2011. Score of A-Class-modified: 201.40 jobs/day.
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