Upgrading cluster hardware offers a path to faster and more accurate simulations, which can help engineering and design teams speed up development cycles and gain deeper insight into product behavior. Intel and Dassault Systèmes have optimized Abaqus FEA software code for the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 product family and the performance benefits can be substantial.
To provide general guidelines, Intel and Dassault Systèmes measured performance for SIMULIA Abaqus FEA across six standard benchmarks that reflect a variety of design scenarios. The results showed an average performance gain of 22 percent for a system based on the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 product family compared with a system running on previous-generation processors.
“The increased capacity of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 enables more efficient execution of larger problems in less time.”
–Matt Dunbar, Software Architecture Director, Dassault Systèmes
Your in-house performance gains will depend on the size and complexity of your design models and the configuration of your existing system. You can quantify the benefits by running your actual workloads on a current generation test cluster. Intel, Dassault Systèmes, and Nor-Tech offer virtual test drives on a two-ten node Windows or Linux cluster based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 product family. It’s a relatively simple process that can help you make informed upgrade decisions based on your specific business and computing needs.
