2H 2015

Comparative Performance
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MSC Software*
Nastran* 2016 Alpha
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MSC Software Nastran* 2016 Alpha Speed Up
1.97X 2X
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Cores
2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v2
1.61X
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2S Xeon E5-2697 v2 + 1 Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor 7120P
1.3X
SOURCE: INTEL MEASURED RESULTS AS OF APRIL, 2014
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Application: MSC Software Nastran* 2016 Alpha.
Description: MSC Software Nastran sparse direct solver optimized
for Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessors. Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors are
especially well suited for large models that consist primarily of
three-dimensional elements and have tightly-coupled multiphysics,
such as noise, vibration, and harshness (NHV) studies.
Availability:
• Code: Contact an MSC Software representative.
• Recipe: Use hStreams* with MPSS 3.5 or later.
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC PRESENTATION
NEW
Usage Model: When large matrices are split into submatrices for
processing, the solver offloads the largest submatrices from the
Intel® Xeon® processor to the Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor.
Performance is maximized through asynchronous compute
capabilities, which allow matrix computations on the coprocessor to
start almost instantly once the data offload begins.
Highlight: This strategy has demonstrated performance gains
across a range of solution sequences for MSC Nastran 2016 Alpha,
including structural statics and modal decomposition, which
account for the majority of customer workloads.
Results: Up to 2X speed up for the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697
v2 and the Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor 7120A in offload mode
over the host.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems,
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