These cases are supporting material for an article that looked at how to choose an EC2 instance to run OpenFOAM (computational fluid dynamics) simulations.
The article summarises which instances were tested and how it was done, along with a rough guide to choosing an EC2 instance for your own OpenFOAM simulations.
This repository contains the test cases used to prepare that article. It contains 6 versions of the windAroundBuildings tutorial from OpenFOAM® v6. Each with a different blockMesh resolution to produce a different model size.
| Test Case | Model Size | blockMesh |
|---|---|---|
| x1 (STD) | ~185K Cells | 25 - 20 - 10 |
| x2 | ~1.1 Million Cells | 50 - 40 - 20 |
| x3 | ~3.3 Million Cells | 75 - 60 -30 |
| x4 | ~7.0 Million Cells | 100 - 80 - 40 |
| x5 | ~13.3 Million Cells | 125 - 100 - 50 |
| x6 | ~22.5 Million Cells | 150 - 120 - 60 |
Grabbing these cases & running them locally will give you some additional data points to compare the performance of your local machines against some current EC2 instances. It should also give you an idea of how your usual simulations might perform on AWS.
The test cases in the article were run in OpenFOAM v6 on Ubuntu 16.04 - they will (most likely) run in earlier versions of OpenFOAM, but may require modification. They should work out-of-the-box in v6.
- Download the cases to your test machine with git OR download & extract the zip archive
git clone https://github.com/CFDEngine/of-on-aws-tests.gitwget -O of-on-aws-tests.zip https://github.com/CFDEngine/of-on-aws-tests/archive/master.zip
- Choose which test case is closest to your usual model size & change into that directory
- Change the
numSubDomainsindecomposeParDictto suit the number of physical cores you have available - Run & time the case using the
Allrunfile - on Ubuntu this can be done with the following command/usr/bin/time -o log.time ./Allrun
The time command will save it's output into a log.time file – the contents of which should look something like this:
61.85user 0.60system 1:03.92elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 362380maxresident)k
10416inputs+0outputs (4major+103628minor)pagefaults 0swaps
In this example 1:03.92elapsed is the interesting bit, showing the time taken was 1m 3.92s.
See the full article for links to the complete data set of equivalent timings on AWS.