Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit iWARP LS-DYNA Performance Study

TEST ENVIRONMENT
All tests were performed by the Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure unit
of Information Technology services at Penn State.
The application software under test was MPPdyna. (Results are shown in Figure 1.)
The test environment consisted of the following:
Servers
• Dell PowerEdge* R710 Server
• Two Intel® Xeon® processors X5560
• 48 GB RAM
Network Adapters
• 10 Gbps iWARP-enabled NetEffect Ethernet Server Cluster Adapter from Intel
• Mellanox Connect-X MT26428 QDR InfiniBand* Host Channel Adapter
System Software
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5.6
• OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution* 1.5.2
• OpenMPI 1.4.2
Switches
• iWARP: Arista 7148SX* with Jumbo Frames enabled
• InfiniBand: Mellanox MTS3600*
For more information on Intel® iWARP, please visit:
www.intel.com/go/ethernet
Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit iWARP LS-DYNA Performance Study
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