Benchmark

The benchmark data goes here. (mjhsieh also gave his ifort testimonial to Intel, it probably will show up somewhere in their advertisements...)

Factor IX Benchmarks

iMac Core Duo 2.0GHz 512M RAM (Mac OS X 10.4.5) w/GNU Fortran 4.0.2/LAM 7.1.1 on share memory

	PMEMD 9.0		Sander 9.0
cpus	Ps/day	Speedup	Ps/day	Speedup
1	n/a	n/a	47.04	1.00
2	n/a	n/a	83.66	1.78

iMac Core Duo 2.0GHz 512M RAM (Mac OS X 10.4.5) w/Intel Fortran 9.1b/Intel MKL 8.1b/LAM 7.1.1 on share memory

	PMEMD 9.0		Sander 9.0
cpus	Ps/day	Speedup	Ps/day	Speedup
1	110.58	1.00	66.71	1.00
2	186.21	1.68	111.48	1.67

Jac Benchmarks

JAC benchmark with nstlim=10000 on sander of AMBER9 in current CVS repository. All binaries were compiled with ifort with/without math kernel. HTT means hyper-threading enabled (4 HTT cpus are actually 2 physical cpus).

4×2 Xeon 3G HTT | Total time 1993.87 (noMKL/MPICH/GbE)
4×  Xeon 3G HTT | Total time 3016.86 (w_MKL/MPICH/p4shmem)
2×  Core Duo 2G | Total time 3203.11 (w_MKL/LAM/SYSV)
2× Pentium D 3G | Total time 3389.14 (w_MKL/LAM/SYSV)
2× Pentium D 3G | Total time 3423.32 (w_MKL/MPICH/p4shmem)
1×  Core Duo 2G | Total time 5633.56 (w_MKL/noMPI)
1× Pentium D 3G | Total time 6367.24 (w_MKL/noMPI)