Multi-core licensing costs 2

[walliat]

Does anyone know what ANSYS charges for for their HPC add on (2 core per add on) and HPC Packs? Is it in-line with other products such as ABACUS/NASTRAN...etc?
.....trying to figure out which package to go with.

 

[BlasMolero]

Hello!,
NX Nastran do not charge for multiple cores, natively supports the activation of all cores you have in your computer.

The user specifies the maximum number of CPUs selected for shared-memory parallel (SMP) processing in several numeric modules. SMP processing reduces elapsed time at the expense of increased CPU time. The default is 0, which specifies no SMP processing. If “parallel=8", the parallel algorithms are used on eight processors.

Also, NX Nastran offers the ability to run certain solution sequences in parallel using the Message Passing Interface (MPI), an industry-wide standard library for C and Fortran message-passing programs. MPI programs can be run on SMP computers, NUMA computers, distributed computers, and any collection of computers supported by the MPI package.

Best regards,
Blas.

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