From Fluid Dynamics to Business Performance

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From computational fluid dynamics simulations to analyzing multi-dimensional sales data, the underlying mathematics is the same and that unifies benchmarking for both high performance and business performance computing.

For IT struggling to to determine "the right size box," to support the activity of a demand-driven supply network, the mathematics that drives this process is exactly the same as that underpinning applications such as business intelligence, structural engineering, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Handling the workload of a complex sales and operations planning process is no different from running a CFD application, in terms of CPU, memory, and I/O resource utilization. In particular, all of these applications rely on large matrix algebra operations, which makes them good targets for parallel execution in both SMP and high-performance cluster configurations.

In order to test the readiness of hardware running CFD, OpenBench Labs tested the Appro XtremeServer which utilitizes the AMD Opteron™ processors to demonstrate the explicit capabilities of a single Appro Server to scale to a maximum of eight instances of Fluent parallel processing. We then ran the Fluent benchmark suite on the HP ProLiant DL585 servers to provide a very interesting results comparasion. For more information, download the white paper.