Reply To: computer for lumerical and other simulations

[Kirill]

Hello,

I can’t speak for COMSOL.

For Lumerical, some general recommendations can be found in the article Hardware specifications guidelines – Ansys Optics. While having more RAM is beneficial, FDTD simulations are typically limited by memory bandwidth because they involve constant, large-scale data movement between the CPU and RAM. Therefore, in addition to RAM size and the number of cores, prioritize multi-channel memory architectures with faster RAM.

Additionally, Lumerical now supports GPU acceleration. For more details, please see Getting started with running FDTD on GPU – Ansys Optics.

Best regards,
Kirill