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Altair Radioss Performance
17 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
5 Altair Radioss Performance
Altair Radioss is a leading structural analysis solver for highly non-linear problems under dynamic loadings. It
is used across all industries worldwide to improve the crashworthiness, safety, and manufacturability of
structural designs. Radioss is similar to AcuSolve in that it typically scales well across multiple processor
cores and servers, has modest memory capacity requirements, and performs minimal disk I/O while in the
solver section. It is tightly integrated with OptiStruct and it comes with a comprehensive material and rupture
library.
Figure 7 shows the relative performance for two Radioss benchmarks on single servers. For this comparison,
all processor cores were utilized while running Radioss.
Here the performance is measured based on the elapsed solver time with the reference of 1.0 for the Dell
EMC 13G Dell EMC R630 with dual Intel Xeon E5-2697Av4 16-core processors. The results are similar to the
AcuSolve results, where the increase in performance from the 13G to the 14G servers is significant,
particularly when 62xx series processors with a lot of cores are used.
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Figure 7: Radioss Performance
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