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Altair OptiStruct Performance
22 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
There are benchmarks which may perform well without such a high-performance network, but such a solution
would not be considered robust for a variety of caseloads.
Figure 12 presents the relative performance for OptiStruct with the Engine model using the DMP solver
across multiple servers.
The reference for the plots was the single node 6142 server, where higher is better. One principle advantage
of running OptiStruct jobs across nodes is that more memory and disk space is available when using multiple
nodes, allowing larger models to be solved than could be solved using a single node. The results indicate
good performance scalability when using multiple nodes.
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Figure 12: OptiStruct DMP scalability across nodes
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