optimization run time

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COMPUTE TIME INFORMATION
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 EXECUTION STARTED                         Wed Sep 13 11:21:25 EDT 2017
 EXECUTION COMPLETED                       Wed Sep 13 11:39:30 EDT 2017
 ELAPSED TIME                                         00:18:04
 CPU TIME                                             02:36:56
 AVERAGE SYSTEM LOAD                                      4.09

 

Hi,

Need a brief explanation of the Elapsed time and CPU time.

Altair Forum User

Hi Manohar,

 

Elapsed time is the actual time taken by the solver to complete the job.

 

CPU time is the process time and is the amount of time for which CPU was used for processing instructions of a job.

 

Thanks,

Vikas