I am beginning to do simulations on very small dimensioned (.004) elastomers. Does anyone have experience in what hardware can process these simulations (nonlinear). Mine won't finish. I also run flow simulation and require higher resolution than 3 but it takes too long. Looking at high end Dual 6 core i7 chip hardware. Boxx/Dell/HP?
Get a 64bit OS and 8Gb or more of RAM. That would be the minimum requirement.
Also, make sure you use best practices in meshing to reduce computing resources and time toll.