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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Rev Biomed Eng. 2017 Jun 30;10:95–121. doi: 10.1109/RBME.2017.2722420

Table V.

Simulation Benchmarks for Plane Wave Test (circa 2015-2016).

Execution parameters for four representative servers
System Tetrahedral mesh size & total RAM (start/stop) Execution time for 5 passes
System #1 (one task, one core)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 V2, 256 GB. 64-bit OS
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. ANSYS EM Suite® 16		 450,000/1,000,000
2.6GB/87 GB		 Meshing time: 50 min
Sim. time: 10 hr 48 min
System #2 (one task, one core)
4 AMD OPTERON 6174 12 core processors, 192 GB, 64-bit OS, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, ANSYS EM Suite® 15 450,000/1,000,000
2.0GB/115 GB		 Meshing time: 70 min
Sim. time: 28 hr 55 min
System #3 (one task, one core)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690, 192 GB, 64-bit OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.6.32, ANSYS EM Suite® 15 450,000/1,000,000
2.0 GB/87 GB		 Meshing time: 63 min
Sim. time: 10 hr 40 min
System #4 (one task, eight cores, HPC option) a
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 V2, 256 GB. 64-bit OS
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, ANSYS EM Suite® 16		 450,000/1,000,000
2.6GB/87 GB		 Meshing time: 50 min
Sim. time: 2 hr 43 min
a.

Systems 1 and 4 differ by the HPC option only.