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24 Dell HPC System for Manufacturing—System Architecture and Application Performance
4.4.1 Implicit Building Block
Two types of solvers are available with ANSYS Mechanical: Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) and Shared
Memory Parallel (SMP). The performance results for these two solvers on an Implicit building block server
are shown in Figure 13 and Figure 14. Each data point on the graphs records the performance of the
specific benchmark data set by using the number of cores marked on the horizontal axis. In general, the
DMP solver offers equivalent or better performance than the SMP solver. The DMP solver continues to
scale up to 16 cores, while the SMP solver does not scale as well with more than eight cores.
Figure 13 ANSYS Mechanical DMP Performance—Implicit BB
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V17cg‐1 V17cg‐2 V17cg‐3 V17ln‐1 V17ln‐2
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