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4.4.3 Explicit Building Block
The performance results for the ANSYS Mechanical DMP and SMP solvers on Explicit building blocks are
shown in Figure 21 and Figure 22. For this series of benchmarks, the DMP solver was run on multiple
systems and the SMP solver was run on a single system. Each data point on the graphs records the
performance of the specific benchmark data set by using the number of processor cores marked on the
horizontal axis. The DMP solver continues to scale up to 256 processor cores for some of the benchmarks.
The SMP solver does not scale as well when more than eight cores are used.
Figure 21 ANSYS Mechanical DMP Performance—Explicit BB
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2,000
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32(1) 64(2) 128(4) 192(6) 256(8)
CoreSolverRating(higherisbetter)
NumberofCores(NumberofNodes)
ANSYSMechanicalDMPPerformance—ExplicitBB
V17cg‐1 V17cg‐2 V17cg‐3 V17ln‐1 V17ln‐2
V17sp‐1 V17sp‐2 V17sp‐3 V17sp‐4 V17sp‐5