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Ansys Fluent is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software application commonly used for a wide range of CFD and multiphysics simulations. CFD applications typically scale well across multiple processor cores and servers, have modest memory capacity requirements, and typically perform minimal disk I/O while solving. However, some simulations might have greater I/O demands, such as large transient analysis. We evaluated 15 benchmark problems from the Fluent benchmark suite on the reference system. For a description of the benchmark cases, see the Ansys Benchmarks Overview.
The Solver Rating metric, which is the number of 25 iteration solves that can be completed in a day, measures the Fluent benchmark performance. The metric is (total seconds in a day)/(25 iteration solve time in seconds). A larger value represents better performance.