Hello,
We want to buy a new workstation, which should be mainly used for
SolidWorks Flow Simulation.
At the moment I use a 4 year old HP Workstation
with the following specifications:
2xIntel Xeon 5160/3GHz/1333 MHz/4MB
RAM: 32 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM
Win X64
We are mainly interested in increasing the speed of solving Flow Simulation problems.
Is it possible to reduce the calculation time by a factor of 2 or 3 with new hardware?
Which hardware and OS do you recommend, if I want to invest 5000 EUR?
Can I reduce the calculation time significantly, if I invest much more than 5000 EUR?
Any help or suggestions are very appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Bernhard
My impression is that the limitation is the Intel CPU.
Traditional engineering workstation manufacturers now supply only Intel chips. IBM has its own chip, and they think a 20% speed advantage over Intel is a selling point, but I would not get out of bed for such a trivial improvement.
Further, it seems that all computers today are really business servers; serving is not demanding compared to engineering calculations. If HP called yours a workstation then you bought some badge engineering.