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The performance of six standard Ansys Mechanical benchmark cases were evaluated on the reference system. The benchmark cases all run in-core with the 512 GB of RAM that is available per compute server on the reference system. So, the local disk configuration has minimal performance impact on the standard benchmarks. Two types of solvers are available with Ansys Mechanical: Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) and Shared Memory Parallel (SMP). In general, the default DMP solver offers equivalent or better performance than the SMP solver, particularly when all cores on a processor are used. As such, only results from the DMP solver are presented. Performance is measured using the Core Solver Rating metric. This metric represents the performance of the solver core which excludes any pre- and postprocessing.
Figure 6 shows the measured performance of the Ansys Mechanical benchmarks on a single server. The results are plotted relative to the performance of a single server configured with Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 processors. Larger values indicate better overall performance. These results show the performance advantage available with 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.