Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation Photonics Maximum SMs allowed by a acdemic 5-tasks license and time domain monitor for GPU Reply To: Maximum SMs allowed by a acdemic 5-tasks license and time domain monitor for GPU

Lito
Ansys Employee

Yes, ANSYS Academic Lumerical Research (5 tasks) allows you to run on a GPU up to a maximum of 320 SMs. 

You can use time monitors but this will affect the simulation speed/performance. You might not be getting the GPU performance as compared to running on CPU with time monitors.Â