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[Mohannad Shahin]

My current workstation consists of:

HP Z820

Intel Xeon E5 2670 v03.06

64 GB RAM DDR3

4GB NVIDIA Quadro 6000

I am currently doing my research in 3D turbulent simulations with mesh approx. 10M elements. My workstation is a bit slow but I have a $1000 to buy a new workstation.

Can you recommend a new build for a better workstation?

[SRP]

 

Hi,

I recommend you to plrease check this forum discussion: Please recommend the configuration of the computer workstation (ansys.com)

If you are not able to access the link, please refer to this forum discussion: Using Help with links (ansys.com)

Thank you

Saurabh

 

[Mohannad Shahin]

I appreciate the guidance. I have checked that discussion but the budget difference is large. Therefore, I started this discussion as mine is only 1000 USD

[Rob]

How many parallel licence keys have you got access to? 

[Mohannad Shahin]

Even though my workstation has 20 physical cores and fluent detects 32, I am only able to run each simulation at a maximum of 12 cores. 

[Rob]

OK, that's the licence limits. One issue with the high core count chips is memory and data passing: the bottleneck is getting data between the cores. What models are you running, and if you monitor cpu & RAM how does it look? Does the current machine have one chip with 20 cores or two chips with 10 each?