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3 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
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1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 System Building Blocks ................................................................................................................................................ 5
2.1 Infrastructure Servers ......................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Compute Building Blocks .................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3 Basic Building Blocks ......................................................................................................................................... 7
2.4 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 System Networks .............................................................................................................................................. 10
2.6 Cluster Management Software ......................................................................................................................... 10
2.7 Services and Support ....................................................................................................................................... 10
2.8 Workload Management .................................................................................................................................... 11
3 Reference System ...................................................................................................................................................... 12
4 Altair AcuSolve Performance ..................................................................................................................................... 14
5 Altair Radioss Performance ........................................................................................................................................ 17
6 Altair OptiStruct Performance ..................................................................................................................................... 20
7 Altair Feko Performance ............................................................................................................................................. 23
8 Basic Building Block Performance ............................................................................................................................. 26
9 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 28