I setup two static simulations on an assembly and hit run all studies. I knew it would involve a long run time ~9 hrs per sim for 2 simulations. It has been 19 hours. When I walked away from my machine this morning I heard the beep that is characteristic of the simulation being finished-(note could have been something else)? The processes I thought looked like it was done and I was able to hit the save button.
But it still said it was solving when I hovered over the results. I thought it could have been a delay, which is not uncommon.
I checked the status of the solver on each tab and each tab states that it has 0% solved! Does anyone know if this number has any reliability or not? Any feedback would be appreciated.
I am trying to determine to either close the file and reopen to see if actually finished or if it somehow restarted.
I am using
large problem direct sparse solver
SW 14 SP5
windows 8
Dell precision T7610 workstation with 60 G ram
David
Let it run. If you have turned off hyperthread then it will read/write to the harddrive faster. It has been my experience that although more of the CPU is used, serial solves can run faster than parallel solves. If you are going to be away from your PC for a long time, go with parallel.