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Autodesk Simulation Moldflow Insight 2013 and 2012 Hardware Certification

Issue

You want to spec a machine to run Autodesk Simulation Moldflow Insight 2013 and Autodesk Moldflow Insight 2012, and are looking for benchmarking guidance on different machine configurations to determine the best machine setup for cost and functionality.  This also includes the ability to interact with the user interface as well as utilize GPU functionality.

Solution

Thirty six models of varying 3D mesh sizes (87,000-1,600,000) were analyzed to calculate time-to-solution on a broad spectrum of usage.  The time-to-solution represents the total wall clock time required by a specific machine to complete all thirty six analyses.  To ensure accuracy with these calculations, analyses were run one at a time with no other CPU-intensive or GPU-intensive programs were being run.  The UI interaction is a measure of viewing the mesh, viewing results, and interacting with other graphical features.

NOTE: The models run in 2013 won't always show faster times then those run in 2012. With the 2013 release a large portion of development was done around solver accuracy and as such to achieve this, it is possible to see longer analyses times because of this improvement to accuracy.

Machine

Specification

Time-to-Solution [sec]

    UI Interaction

Version

Dell Precision T3600

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Sandy Bridge Six Core Intel Xeon E5-1660 0@ 3.3GHz
Total Cores: 6Cores: 12 Threads
L3 Cache: 15MB
Total Memory: 8GB (4 X 2GB @1600MHz)
HDD: ATA SCSI
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 2000
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.13.679

20436

 Passed

2013

HP EliteBook 8770w

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Ivy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2.7GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB (2 X 4GB @ 1600MHz)
HDD: 7200rpm, SATA-300
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro K5000M
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.13.593

23263

 Passed

2013

Dell Precision M4700

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Ivy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2.7GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB (2 X 4GB @ 1600MHz)
HDD: 7200rpm, SATA-300
GPU/Graphics Card: AMD FierPro M4000
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 8.951.6.1000

 23656

 Passed

2013

Dell Precision T7600

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Sandy Bridge Dual Six Core Intel Xeon E5-2667 0@ 2.9GHz
Total Cores: 12Cores: 24 Threads
L3 Cache: 15MB
Total Memory: 8GB (4 X 2GB @1600MHz)
HDD: ATA SCSI
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 2000
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.13.679

 24791

 Passed

2013

Dell Precision M6700

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Ivy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-3920XM @ 2.9GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB (4 X 2GB @1300MHz)
HDD: 7200rpm, SATA-300
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro K5000M
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.13.593

 24925

 Passed

2013

Dell Precision M4700

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Ivy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-3920XM @ 2.9GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB (4 X 2GB @ 1300MHz)
HDD: 7200rpm, SATA-300
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro K2000M
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.13.593

 25212

 Passed

2013

Dell Precision M6700

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Ivy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.6GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 6MB
Total Memory: 4GB (2 X 2GB @1600MHz)
HDD: 7200rpm, SATA-300
GPU/Graphics Card: AMD FierPro M6000
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 8.951.6.1000

 26160

 Passed

2013

HP Z820

OS: Windows 7 professional  SP1 64 bit
Processor: Sandy Bridge Dual Eight Core Intel Xeon E5-2680 @ 2.70GHz
Total Cores: 16 Cores: 32 Threads
L3 Cache: 20 MB
Total Memory: 16 GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 276.28

 22579

  Passed

2013

HP EliteBook 8760w

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Sandy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.3GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB
GPU/Graphics Card: Quadro 5010M
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 296.70

 24616

  Passed

2013

HP EliteBook 8760w

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit
Processor: Sandy Bridge Quad Core Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.3GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB
GPU/Graphics Card: Quadro 4000M
GPU/Graphics Driver Version: 296.70

 25499

  Passed

2013

HP Z210

OS: Windows 7 professional  64 bit
Processor: Quad core Intel Xeon E31280 @ 3.50 GHz
Total Cores: 4 Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Total Memory: 16 GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Graphics Driver: 267.79

22368

 Passed

2012

HP Z210

OS: Windows 7 professional  64 bit
Processor: Quad core Intel Xeon E31270 @ 3.40 GHz
Total Cores: 4 Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Total Memory: 8 GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Graphics Driver: 267.79

22594

 Passed

2012

HP Z800

OS: Windows 7 professional  64 bit
Processor: Dual 6 core Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz
Total Cores: 12 Cores: 24 Threads
L3 Cache: 12MB
Total Memory: 12GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 6000

Graphics Driver: 267.79

23780

 Passed

2012

HP Z400

OS: Windows 7 professional  64 bit
Processor: 6 core Intel Xeon X3680 @ 3.33 GHz
Total Cores: 6 Cores: 12 Threads
L3 Cache: 12MB
Total Memory: 12GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Graphics Driver: 267.79

24118

 Passed

2012

HP EliteBook 8740w

OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Processor: Quad Core Intel Core i7 Q820 @ 1.73GHz
Total Cores: 4Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 8MB
Total Memory: 8GB
GPU/Graphics Card: Quadro 5000M

Graphics Driver 267.76

32785

 Passed

2012

Dell T7500 with Dual Processor Riser

OS: Windows Vista Enterprise Service Pack 2 64 bit
Processor: Dual quad core Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27 GHz
Total Cores: 8 Cores
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Total Memory: 18 GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Graphics Driver: 267.79

34115

 Passed

2012

Dell Precision M6500

OS: Windows 7 professional  64 bit Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU Q720 @ 1.60GHz
Total Cores: 4 Cores: 8 Threads
L3 Cache: 6MB
Total Memory: 4GB
GPU/Graphics Card: ATI FirePro M7820

Graphics Driver: 8.773.1.1

39655

 Passed

2012

Dell Precision M4500

OS: Windows 7 professional  64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU M620 @ 2.67GHz
Total Cores: 2 Cores: 4 Threads
L3 Cache: 4MB
Total Memory: 4GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

Graphics Driver 267.76

46580

 Passed

2012

Dell Precision M4500

OS: Windows 7 professional  32 bit Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU M620 @ 2.67GHz
Total Cores: 2 Cores: 4 Threads
L3 Cache: 4MB
Total Memory: 4GB
GPU/Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M

Graphics Driver: 267.76

Out of thirty-six models, eleven models could not be run due to lack of memory, as 32 bit OS could not utilize all the 4GB of RAM.

 Passed

2012

Certified GPU cards are listed below and were only tested on 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Vista.  GPU supported represents cards supported by Autodesk Moldflow products for numerical calculations.  Graphics represents viewing mesh, viewing results, and interacting with other graphical features.  This list does not imply that the cards listed are the only cards support by Autodesk Moldflow.

Cards

Driver Version

GPU Supported

Graphics

NVIDIA Quadro 6000

267.79

Supported

Passed

NVIDIA Quadro 5000

267.79

Supported

Passed

AMD FirePro V9800

8.773.1.1

Not Supported

Passed

AMD FirePro V8800

8.773.1.1

Not Supported

Passed

AMD FirePro V7900

8.85

Not Supported

Passed

AMD FirePro V5900

8.85

Not Supported

Passed

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  • Document Information

    Published date: 2012-Nov-30
    ID: TS16844488

     

    Applies to:
    Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow Insight Premium 2013
    Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight Performance 2012
    Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow Insight Standard 2013
    Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight Basic 2012
    Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow Insight Ultimate 2013
    Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight Advanced 2012
    Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow Synergy 2013
    Autodesk® Moldflow® Synergy 2012