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Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

(OP)
Hello,
I want to use all cores of my CPU during running SOL 700. SMP command doesn't work.
How?
Thanks for help.

RE: Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

You need and advanced License. With a basic license of Nastran you could use only four core with PARALLEL = 4

Seif Eddine Naffoussi, Stress Engineer
www.Innovamech.com
33650 Martillac – France

RE: Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

(OP)
I ran SOL 700 using CPU with only two cores and dytran-lsdyna.exe used only 50 % of the CPU (I tried commands parallel=2, smp=2 and nproc=2).
There must be some command or something which forces to use all cores but unfortunately I don't know it.
In the picture is shown usage of the CPU during running SOL 700.
Thanks for help.

RE: Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

Hi Zack were you able to run with multiple cores?, i have the same problem.

RE: Nastran SOL700 shared memory parallel

The following is an extract from the MSC website on how to run sol700 jobs in parallel on windows platform.

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Parallel Processing (SMP) MDR3 Sol700 in WIN/XP

1. Install Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack. This can be installed from the Microsoft web site at the URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=d8462378-2f68-409d-9cb3-02312bc23bfd&displaylang=en#filelist

The file name is sdk_x64.msi (for WIN/XP/Vista/Windows7 64-bit OS)

2. Edit the SOL700 execution control card in the input deck as follows:

SOL 700,129 PATH=3 STOP=1

3. Create a file named sol700.pth in the working directory with the following contents:

C:\MSC.Software\MD_Nastran\md2008\dyna\run_dytran
exe=C:\MSC.Software\MD_Nastran\md2008\dyna\dytran-lsdyna
nproc=2
memory=30m
debug=yes

The typical MD Nastran installation directory is used here.

exe=C:\MSC.Software\MD_Nastran\md2008\dyna\dytran-lsdyna (This line is optional if the default installation of dytran-lsdyna executable is used)


nproc=2 is used for two processors

memory=30m is used for 30MB

The memory and debug lines are also optional.

MD Nastran (MDR3) Sol700 parallel can be now run with this set up.
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