ANSYS High Performance Computing (HPC) licenses provide customers with the capacity to use today’s multiprocessor computers to perform more of their CAE simulations in a shortened timeframe, and also the ability to consider bigger, more detailed, and more accurate simulations.
We have found that more and more ANSYS customers in Australia and New Zealand are choosing to expand their ANSYS HPC capabilities, driven by the business value created by examining more design ideas upfront so that they can make correct product design decisions. In many industries, ANSYS HPC enables our customers to expand their usage of high fidelity simulations, enabling enhanced insight into product performance and avoidance of costly troubleshooting delays, warranty issues, or product failures.
The above 4-million cell CFD model demonstrates performance on cluster sizes up to 64 core. Each color represents a partition for parallel processing, with each partition mapped to a separate core.
- What Does ANSYS HPC do?
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The ANSYS HPC product family enables parallel processing on multiprocessor / multicore computers. Parallel processing divides the simulation task into pieces and each piece is then solved - in parallel (e.g., simultaneously) - on separate processor cores. In simulations where the speed is close to ideal, if you divide the simulation task into 8 pieces and run it on 8 processor cores, you will get your answer ~8 times faster. In addition, by having multiple processors work on the problem, you will find that you can solve a very large simulation that might have overwhelmed a single processor.
- Potential Benefits
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ANSYS HPC tasks are physics-neutral, meaning that they work in conjunction with all the main ANSYS solvers. Imagine a scenario where you can access a central pool of ANSYS HPC tasks that can be shared amongst multi-disciplinary groups within your organisation. Here are some examples of simulation scenarios where ANSYS HPC has been critical to our customer's success:
ANSYS CFD (FLUENT and CFX) simulations: CFD is inherently nonlinear with significant runtimes and parallel processing with ANSYS HPC is key to getting answers back in a timely fashion
Large and/or Non-Linear ANSYS Mechanical simulations: Depending on the complexity, these models often have very long run times. ANSYS HPC can reduce turnaround time from days to hours on the most complex Mechanical simulations, as well as provide sufficient resources to run large models that require more capacity than is available to a single core.
- Local Knowledge
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In Australia and New Zealand, engineers are often dealing with complex CAE problems that require access to parallel computing for timely and successful completion of their simulations. LEAP has developed extensive experience in helping our customers to overcome these IT hurdles and we offer a collaborative approach to ensure your successful implementation of ANSYS HPC (along with appropriate hardware infrastructure) to ensure a rapid return on your software and hardware investments.