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Ansys Mechanical is a finite element analysis (FEA) software with structural, thermal, acoustics, transient and nonlinear capabilities. Implicit FEA solvers often place large demands on the memory and disk I/O subsystems, particularly for out-of-core solutions, where the problem is too large to fit into the available system RAM. Because of these characteristics, the performance of any specific system configuration is highly dependent on the workload.
The specific Ansys Mechanical workload determines the appropriate processor, memory, and disk I/O configuration. Therefore, it is difficult to provide a general system configuration which is optimized for all Ansys Mechanical use cases. Critical considerations for system configuration for Ansys Mechanical include memory capacity and local disks for scratch I/O. Due to these dependencies, you must size systems for Ansys Mechanical based on the precise workloads.