A new speed record has been obtained with EMPIRE XCcel. On a dual Xeon X5472 (3GHz, 1600 FSB, 2x6MB, Quad Core) a simulation performance of up to 1600 MCells/s could be achieved using the upcoming version 5.20. Using version 5.15 which is already available a performance number of at least 1300 MCells/s can be obtained.

With its on-the-fly structure and processor adapted code generation EMPIRE XCcel fully exploit the processor architecture by using the second level cache for multiple time stepping and parallelization on all built-in cores.

In contrast to solutions which make use of graphic card accelerators the performance obtained with EMPIRE XCcel allows the usage of the complete built-in memory. On a 64 bit operation system up to 32 GByte can be used today with the full simulation performance.