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[c76zhang]

Hi,

Our university is in the process of purchasing an ANSYS license, and we as users are asked to give input. Specifically, on HPC options for HFSS, we were given the following option:
"One year, 50 tasks HFSS (2x25) - incl. 128 HPC bundle".

We are unfamiliar with the specific terminology here. Could you clarify:

1. What is considered a "task", and what does (2x25) as opposed to 50 refer to?
2. Does the "128 HPC bundle" refer to connection to HPC with 128 cores? If so, can you provide pointers to what clusters will be connected to for this bundle, and what the typical requestable resources (RAM, number of core-years) and queue times are?

We also have the following questions:

1. In the past I have worked under the "auto" license configuration, and ran jobs locally on a HPW provided by the university with 28 cores. Some jobs may take as much as 500 Gb RAM. How does the above HPC configuration compare to this?
2. We have a ongoing project with DRAC's HPC cluster. Is the above HPC license compatible with running jobs on DRAC clusters? (Link: Ansys - Alliance Doc)

Many thanks in advance for your reply.