So, Nehalem-EP is out, NDAs are gone, and we're all waiting for figures. :)
Being advantaged by my easterly timezone, I'll start: SGI published a press release about the inclusion of Nehalems into their ICE platform, and added some benchmark galore. """ Performance Soars by 140 Percent with Unprecedented Scalability The new system delivers reliably scalable performance gains of up to 140 percent across a variety of data-intensive applications, including the Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application, the VASP Ab-Initio simulation, and WRF weather modeling. * Fluent. A 14-million-cell model of the external flow of a truck body was tested on 64 cores of an Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series at 2.93GHz. On the new SGI system, the test ran 1.59x faster than AMD Shanghai at 2.7GHz and 1.73x faster than Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel® Xeon® processor X5472 at 3.0GHz on 64 cores — with near linear scalability. For a larger 111-million-cell model, the performance improvement is even higher. Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series at 2.93GHz/1067 is 1.64x faster than AMD Shanghai on 64 cores and 1.81x faster than Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel® Xeon® X5472 3.0GHz on 128 cores. * VASP. When running the bench.PdO standard benchmark for the Vienna Ab-Initio Simulation Package (VASP), the Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series at 2.93GHz on 32 cores is 1.95x faster than the same system equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors X5470 at 3.0GHz. * WRF. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model of the continental United States at 2.5km resolution runs 2.4x faster on Altix ICE 8200EX with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series at 2.93GHz on 128 cores than it does on a similarly configured system featuring Intel® Xeon® processors X5470 at 3.0GHz. """ http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/march/altix_ice.html Any other numbers, people? Cheers, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
