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    40 Core Server is slower an 12 Core Workstation???

    Thanks for the response. We've done all items a through d and still nothing. This is happening on an Abaqus benchmarking model of a car crash, so by no means is it a simple linear model.
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    40 Core Server is slower an 12 Core Workstation???

    Hi everyone, My company recently purchased a 40 Core HP Proliant DL580 server (4 processors, 10 cores each, 2.4 GHz). This is an upgrade from our 12 core HP Z800 workstation (2 processors, 6 cores each, 3.06 GHz) Note that we have only 19 tokens, so we max out at 24 cores. We are seeing mixed...
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    Resource Management - 10 projects, 10 resources, 1 project manager

    Hi everyone, I am a PM of a group that has about 10 projects annually, and about 10 resources to spread around these projects. I would like to evolve from Excel to MS Project for resource management and scheduling. Once I create a resource pool project (with no tasks), do I need to open ALL 10...
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    Abaqus on multiple workstations

    We are currently running Abaqus jobs on a 12 core, 72Gb RAM machine. We are thinking about purchasing additional tokens and another workstation, to hopefully run 24 core simultaneously. Does anyone have any experience with running jobs split between 2 workstations, and what is necessary in terms...
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    Optimized Workstation - which is better?

    My organization is currently deciding between 2 workstations to be a dedicated Abaqus solver machine, for a small group of several engineers that will work in CAE on their laptop and solve on this workstation. The two options are: Xeon Six Core 3.06 GHz processor 2 Xeon QuadCore 2.67 MHz...

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