PC GAMESS v. 7.0: Intel Netburst Xeons benchmarks


Number of cores

used

1

2

3

4

using all 8 logical processors in HTT mode

Test 1, Dempsey, CPU time and relative speedup

4837.3

100%

2459.0

197%

1666.6

290%

1277.6

379%

 

Test 1, Potomac, CPU time and relative speedup

5110.7

100%

2588.1

197%

1750.6

292%

1335.7

383%

 

Test 2, Dempsey, Wall clock time and relative speedup

296.2

100%

194.8

152%

160.0

181%

147.6

201%

 

Test 2, Potomac, Wall clock time and relative speedup

349.9

100%

238.3

147%

199.6

175%

182.7

192%

 

Test 3, Dempsey, CPU time and relative speedup

8975.9

100%

4464.9

201%

2996.7

300%

2285.8

393%

 

Test 3, Potomac, CPU time and relative speedup

9492.9

100%

4709.2

202%

3186.4

298%

2440.6

389%

 

Test 4, Dempsey, Wall clock time and relative speedup

1280.8

100%

657.9

195%

533.2

240%

460.6

278%

372.5

344%

Test 4, Potomac, Wall clock time and relative speedup

1368.9

100%

715.3

191%

707.6

193%

608.1

225%

469.1

292%

Test 5, Dempsey, CPU time and relative speedup

9672.2

100%

5102.2

190%

3618.7

267%

2917.6

332%

 

Test 5, Potomac, CPU time and relative speedup

10531.5

100%

5604.7

188%

3974.2

265%

3202.5

329%

 

Test 6, Dempsey, CPU time and relative speedup

27785.2

100%

14042.0

198%

9471.7

293%

7213.6

385%

 

Test 6, Potomac, CPU time and relative speedup

29493.1

100%

14909.4

198%

10048.4

294%

7647.4

386%

 

 


OS and hardware description


Intel dual-core Xeon DP Dempsey 3.2 GHz, dual-processor (four CPU cores, eight logical processors), 1067 MHz FSB, Bensley platform, 4x1024 MB DDR2 533 MHz RAM, 120 GB IDE HDD, Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 SP 1

Intel Xeon MP Potomac 3.0 GHz, four-processor (four CPU cores, eight logical processors), 800 MHz FSB, 8 MB L3 cache, 8x1024 MB RAM, 120 GB IDE HDD, Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 SP 1




Tests description


Test 1, single-point direct DFT (B3LYP) energy plus gradient for medium-size system (623 basis functions). View image

Test 2, single-point semiempirical (PM3) energy plus gradient for large system (540 atoms, 2160 basis functions). View image

Test 3, single-point direct MP2 energy for medium-size system (623 basis functions, the same system as one used for Test 1). View image

Test 4, single-point two-state MCQDPT2 energy with ISA energy denominators shift for small model system. View image

Test 5, single-point direct CASSCF(12,12) for medium-size system (retinal molecule, cc-pVDZ, 565 Cartesian basis functions) using ALDET code. View image

Test 6, single-point direct CIS energy plus gradient of first excited state of medium-size system (porphyrin molecule, cc-pVTZ (aug-cc on Nitrogens), 1130 Cartesian basis functions, D2h group). View image


Test comments


Tests 2 and 4 were run in multithreaded mode, other tests were run in standard parallel mode using dynamic load balancing over p2p interface. Note that test 2 does not scale well mainly due to limitations of the PC GAMESS' semiempirical code, while test 4 would scale much better for larger job. CPU or Wall clock times are given on master node in seconds.


Copyright © 2006 by Alex A. Granovsky

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