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45 Dell HPC System for Manufacturing—System Architecture and Application Performance
Figure 41 Explicit Building Block Power—ANSYS Fluent
Figure 42, Figure 43 and Figure 44 plot the power consumption for the three compute building block
types when running a selection of ANSYS Mechanical benchmark datasets. The ANSYS Mechanical DMP
solver was used for these power measurements. For the Explicit building block, the values reported are the
power required for one building block while running ANSYS Mechanical by using 256 cores or eight nodes.
For the Implicit building block, the power values were measured while running ANSYS Mechanical by using
all CPU cores in the server. For the Implicit GPGPU building block, the power values were measured while
running ANSYS Mechanical with all CPU cores plus both GPUs. The values of the measured average and
peak power are shown on the graphs, with the average power displayed in the center of the average
power bars and the peak power displayed above the bars.
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