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[robertem2k]

I would like to test our EBG antenna array Ansys HFSS simulation models on a strong VM with Nvida A100 80GB, in order to understand how this strong GPU card could help in improving the speed of our simulations. 

I have seen Ansys blog advertising that GPU could help improve the HFSS simulation speed by up 2x, but I could not find more detailed benchmarking, and as I understand the speed improvement also depends a lot on a paritcular simulation model and solvers used. 

Before large investment in the actual physical computing hardware like A100 GPU, we would like to try this test using Cloud computing such as MS Azure.  Perhaps, Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 (with 1 GPU, 24 vCPU, 220 GB RAM) or Standard_NC96ads_A100_v4 (with 4 GPU, 96 vCPU, 880 GB RAM).  

Where could I find more information on optimum/recomended VM setup configuration, to install and run Ansys Electronic Desktop/HFSS with A100 GPU?

Also, I noticed that there are some preconfigured OS images for Ansys 18.2 Fluids, however, I could not find anything for Ansys Electronic Desktop/HFSS.

Any recommendations or software setup instructions to make the complete configuration with A100 GPU easier?

Thank you very much, Robert.

[Aymen Mzoughi]

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