Workstation for Radioss ?

Donee1970
Donee1970 Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Dear, I am building a workstation pc to solve the Crash problem and simulate CFD, aerodynamics...

My goals are crash and aerodynamic problems.

Can you help me understand: How long does a core Xeon CPU handle 10,000 nodes of FE model in radioss solver?
Here is the configuration I tried building, please give me an advice ?
Thank you very much !!!

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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2020

    Hi @Donee1970

     

    10k nodes is not that much, actually.

    And this is a very open discussion, as it really depends on element size, contacts, material properties, timesteps...

    It really depends on what are you trying to accomplish.

     

    For Crash and CFD problems, number of core's usually is the most important. Usually they scale very well the computation, for big models.

    Most of the Auto OEMs runs their crash models (1M+ elements) using HPCs with 64+ core's.

    So your 18 core CPU is nice for medium problems. (Don't forget about the software licensing as well, as it increases)

     

    But I would not forget of RAM memory and disk size. 

    CFD problems can generate easily large result files. 

     

    I imagine that you have also a storage drive, as the SSD would be full very quickly.

     

     

  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited October 2020

    by the way, take a look at this topic:

    https://community.altair.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=2446c8761b2bd0908017dc61ec4bcba5

     

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