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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Simple Benchmarking and SSD vs HD

Ery,

Thanks for the link, I had never seen that page before.

That is a great idea but lets see how much interest other 
people have before we set up a web page.

Jason

On 11/22/2013 11:07 AM, Ery Djunaedy wrote:
>
>
> Jason,
>
> I think we should start EnergyPlus Benchmark Test, something
> similar to what Mark Stock has done with Radiance:
> http://markjstock.org/pages/rad_bench.html
>
> I think you need to repackage the 16 Ref Buildings, make a
> group run or something, and let people report back.
>
> Ery
>
>
> On 11/22/2013 09:47 AM, Jason Glazer wrote:
>>
>> I recently purchased a solid state drive in hopes that it
>> would increase the speed of EnergyPlus 8.1 simulations. I
>> ran some benchmarks of the simulation files on either the
>> solid state drive or a disk drive and the EnergyPlus program
>> on the solid state drive or disk drive. These were run from
>> EP-Launch as a group and the temporary files were located
>> where the input files are. I set EP-Launch to use one
>> simulation process at a time. The operating system was on
>> the disk drive. I took the elapsed time from the ERR file
>> and also reported the timestamp of the first and last file
>> to be created by the group of simulations. See the first
>> four columns of results in the attached spreadsheet.
>>
>> The conclusion surprised me: the solid state drive made
>> almost no difference.
>>
>> While I was at it, I ran the same simulations on some other
>> computers I have.
>>
>> To do the benchmarking, I just used the 16 reference
>> buildings that come with EnergyPlus 8.1 but made them all
>> annual simulations, also attached.
>>
>> Feel free to add your own test results to the spreadsheet
>> and redistribute but please describe the computer
>> configuration. Can anyone's computer beat 1415 seconds?
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> --
>> Jason Glazer, P.E., GARD Analytics, 90.1 ECB chair
>> Admin for onebuilding.org building performance mailing lists
>>
>
>
>
> 

-- 
Jason Glazer, P.E., GARD Analytics, 90.1 ECB chair
Admin for onebuilding.org building performance mailing lists


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