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4 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
1 Introduction
This technical white paper discusses the performance of various Altair HyperWorks™ products, including
Altair OptiStruct™, Altair Radioss™, Altair AcuSolve™, and Altair Feko™, on the Dell EMC Ready Solution
for HPC Digital Manufacturing, with benchmarking workload management by Altair PBS Professional™. This
Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC was designed and configured specifically for Digital Manufacturing
workloads, where Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications are critical for virtual product development.
The Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing uses a flexible building block approach to HPC
system design, where individual building blocks can be combined to build HPC systems which are optimized
for customer specific workloads and use cases.
The Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing is one of many solutions in the Dell EMC HPC
solution portfolio. Please visit www.dellemc.com/hpc for a comprehensive overview of the available HPC
solutions offered by Dell EMC.
The architecture of the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing and a description of the
building blocks are presented in Section 2. Section 3 describes the system configuration, software and
application versions, and the benchmark test cases that were used to measure and analyze the performance
of the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing. Section 4 quantifies the capabilities of the
system and presents benchmark performance for AcuSolve. Section 5 contains the performance data for
Radioss. Section 6 contains the performance information for OptiStruct. Section 7 contains the performance
data for Feko, and Section 8 contains performance information for the Basic Building Block.