Hello,
I was wondering, what is the best method to measure the performance of hardware when using Flow Simulation? What have people done for benchmarking?
I saw the Solidworks benchmark results at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pz7wTpIkC7LA28ybEyxyTPw using the standard punch holder from Anna Wood's site http://www.solidmuse.com/solidworks-benchmark-punch-holder.html.
The punchholder test is good for Solidworks performance and stresses the CPU primarily, with relatively low memory usage.
Flow Sim uses lot's of memory for a high cell count model and uses the CPU's, although not fully for a single simulation.
I would imagine that selecting one of the tutorial models would be a good start. Set up a configuration with boundary conditions, heat source, radiation, porous media, etc., and set refinement to achieve a specified cell count. Then clone that configuration several times so you will be able to run one model at a time, two at a time, four at a time using batch solve.
Any one interested in trying something along these lines?
Cheers, Rich.
Good idea. Would be very intresting.
Should a bechmark try to include as many calculation-elements (radiation, porous media, etc) or should you limit it to the most commonly used (whatever they are..)?
It could be a risk of low participation rate if it takes to long to solve the benchmark, but it would be interesting to benchmark as much of Flowsim as possible. It would also be good to have a big distribution portal as Anna woods homepage to get up the participation rate.
//Kristofer