Tweak GPU Card for Hypermesh

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

I have 2 workstation laptops. Both of them have professional graphics.

One has P2000 and the other one has RTX3000.

However, whenever I try to use hypermesh, hypermesh only uses my CPU and so my GPU is doing nothing making it useless.

 

Does anyone know what do I do in order for Hypermesh to use the full potential of my GPU? 

I already tried to tweak the NVidia Control Panel to use my GPU as default but still Hypermesh ignores my GPU.

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Answers

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    How do you know your GPU is doing nothing within Hypermesh?

     

  • Rod
    Rod Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    How do you know your GPU is doing nothing within Hypermesh?

     

    When you click Ctrl+Shift+Esc, under 'Processes' or 'Performance' tabs, you'll see what hardware is currently working on a certain program. My GPU is always doing nothing no matter how many HM models I open and run. I have tried opening 10 HM models and 5 HV models, my GPU is still not helping. Rather, more than 50% of my CPU and close to 75% of RAM are being utilized. My processor is Xeon (16 cores) and 16Gb of DDR4.

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    With your Ctrl+Shift+Esc you get 'processes list' on CPU, no more.

    If you think your GPU is useless, try to remove your card P2000 and run Hypermesh again?

     

  • Rod
    Rod Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    With your Ctrl+Shift+Esc you get 'processes list' on CPU, no more.

    If you think your GPU is useless, try to remove your card P2000 and run Hypermesh again?

     

     

    When I use other software, I can see that my GPU (not the onboard GPU) is working more than my CPU. So I am wondering if there's something I need to do in order for my computer to use my GPU when using Hypermesh. For big models with many holes, just breaking the surfaces takes a heck of a time and the HM is using a lot of CPU, not my GPU.

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    As I can understand, Hyperworks Solvers (RADIOSS, Optistruct) can use GPU for computing.

    Within a Hypermesh/Hyperworks interactive sessions, I think GPU will be used for graphical render only not for another computing.

     

    Maybe Altair expert could confirm that?