Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 Family - High Performance Computing

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*

Crash simulation analysis using LS-DYNA*

Jobs/day normalized to 1.0 baseline of Intel® Xeon® processor X3230 performance

Benchmark description for LS-DYNA* mpp971

LS-DYNA* is a general purpose transient dynamic finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems, for use in various industries, including automobile design, aerospace, manufacturing, and bioengineering. Benchmark data sets and cluster performance quotations are available from the independent Web site www.topcrunch.org. The TopCrunch benchmarks associated with structural dynamics (LS-DYNA) address domain decomposition, message passing, load balancing, and dynamic memory allocation in automotive crash safety analysis. The chart above shows single node benchmark performance comparisons of automotive crash simulation for single vehicle barrier crash, three vehicle rear-end crash, and two vehicle head-on crash (neon_refined_revised, three vehicle collision, car-to-car). See below Web sites for more information. LS-Dyna: www.lstc.com/lsdyna.htm LS-DYNA Benchmarks: www.topcrunch.org/.

Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family

Intel estimates as of January 2011.

Intel® Xeon® processor X3230 platform (score 1.00)

Intel® Server System S3200SH with one Intel Xeon processor X3230 (2.66 GHz, 8 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB), Hardware Prefetch Enable, Adjacent Sector Prefetch Enable, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology enabled, Enhanced C1 enabled, 8 GB (4x 2 GB DDR2-800 CL5 ECC), 120GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5 for x86_64. Source: Intel estimates as of January 2008. Score: 9.069 jobs/day.

45nm Intel® Xeon® processor X3380 platform (score 1.34)

Supermicro* X7SBE with one Intel Xeon processor X3380 (quad-core, 3.16 GHz, 2x6MB L2 cache, 1333MHz system bus), Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology enabled, Enhanced C1 enabled, 8GB memory (4x2GB DDR2-800 unbuffered ECC), 146GB SATA 10000RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.3 for x86_64. Source: Intel estimates as of May 2009. Score: 12.11 jobs/day.

45nm Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 platform (score 2.12)

Intel® Server Board S3420GP board 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, TR1056B. Score of three Cars@30 ms: 19.23 jobs/day.

32nm Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1280 platform (score 2.85)

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 three Cars@30 ms: 25.87 jobs/day.

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