Mol Dyn: Molecular Dynamics is a method for simulating the
thermodynamic behaviour of materials using their forces, velocities, and
positions. Most important of the afore mentioned is the force.
Primordia: This code calculates the Quantum Mechanical Hartree-Fock Orbitals
for each electron in any element of the
periodic table.
The dual Xeon system finally comes into its own
here. Sciencemark 2.0 makes good use of hyperthreading and multiple
processors, and this shows especially in the Mol Dyn benchmark. It's
nice to see that the program can differentiate between dual CPU's and
HyperThreading as well. Bandwidth is king in the Primordia benchmark, and
the 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 takes advantage of this.
CINEBENCH
2000 is a free benchmarking tool for Windows and the Mac OS based on the
powerful 3D software CINEMA 4D RX. The tool is set to deliver accurate
benchmarks by testing not only a computer's raw processing speed but also all
other areas that affect system performance such as OpenGL, multithreading, and
multiprocessors
Cinebench is the first of our benchmarks (besides Sandra)
that specifically tests multiple CPUs. We thought we'd run the Xeon
system through the multiple CPU benchmark to see how it did in its various
configurations. We knew that hyperthreading allows single Intel
CPUs to run this multiple CPU test, so we wanted to see the difference
between Hyperthreading's 'virtual' extra processor and a physical
dual CPU setup. As you can see, there's quite a significant
performance advantage to the extra CPU here, though
hyperthreading alone allows a single CPU to do a competent
job.