Benchmarking

Can anybody point me to some useful benchmarking software - and more
importantly, a database of results?

I have some users who need to upgrade their machines because of perceived
slow running - they are just over two years old now (the machines, not the
users!). But we don't want to throw money away and then find that we were
already still in the upper quartile for machine performance.

The machine spec is currently Dell Precision 650 Workstation, with single
Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz processor, 2Gb RAM, NVIDIA Quadro FX500 card, 142Gb total
disk space (all solidworks data stored on a HP Proliant server).

Running SolidWorks 2006, SP 3, Ship-in-a-bottle comes out at the following;

Test1: Shaded far right, HLR checked: 40.21 seconds
Test2: Shaded far right, HLR unchecked: 36.76 seconds
Test3: Shaded far left, HLR checked: 39.09 seconds
Test4: Shaded far left, HLR unchecked: 40.29 seconds

The problem is, of course, that we have no way of knowing if this is fast or
slow, or what score we should aim for.

All help appreciated.

Pete.

 

Paul Kellner, of Engineering Transport LLC has a number of nice benchmarks
and links to benchmarks at < http://www.engtran.com/SWBM001.html >

He doesn't, unfortunately, have a log of results.

One of our IT guys just built a new machine for us. It's an Athlon 64 X2
Dual Core Processor 4600+, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX1400, Western Digital
Raptor 10K RPM 80GB HD. The dual core doesn't help much on SolidWorks, but
is nice when you're multiplexing. The rest of the equipment probably doesn't
have much effect on ship in a bottle. It took 26.7 seconds for your test 1
and 20.7 for test 3.


Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

I have posted results here and on the SW forum, just not on the
benchmark website. Probably should, but then the dog might not get fed.