Hi all,
Has anyone been able to dish out the Solver process on several computers?
Does anyone know of a software that could do this, for SW Simulation?
Being a SW teacher at the end of term, I have recently helped some of my students with Simulation/Motion/FloWorks for their thesis projects. Some have been quite massive - had one with some 5 million DOF's - and it bugs me that I am unable to use our classroom computers during nighttime. 3D Studio with its Backburner works just fine for rendering, and it would be nice to have something similar for SW.
I am aware that rendering a picture and computing a FEM analysis is not the same type of calculation, but shouldn't it be possible? Perhaps someone from SW staff can comment on this?
Regards,
Bengt
Bengt,
Check out the "More Like This" box on the right. I see at least one thread that looks like it talks about this question for FloWorks.
I seem to recall reading some threads here that said that FloWorks uses multiple threads, but Simulation is limited to two cores, so there may be hope for FloWorks but not much for Simulation.
I know that ANSYS requires the user to buy the capability to run more than 2 cores for simulation. This seems like a really blatant ripoff, but the rationale is that they had to spend a lot of resources rewriting the programs to use multiple processors. Still, the last time I checked, it was quite expensive and we decided not to go that route.
Running the software on more than one computer is even trickier. I think that normally requires another program to help handle the parceling out of the work, but I'm not at all familiar with the question.
Jerry Steiger