{"id":293155,"date":"2023-07-14T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/hardware-resource-optimization\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:22:06","slug":"hardware-resource-optimization","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/hardware-resource-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware resource optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using Lumerical for 3D FDTD simulations. I have the following<br \/>problem when running 2 simulations at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Simulation 1 alone using 32 cores takes 10 hours.<br \/>Simulation 2 alone using 32 cores takes 10 hours.<br \/>When simulation 1 and simulation 2 are running at the same time using<br \/>32 cores each, it takes 20 hours for each one to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to optimize the resources for parallel simulations?<br \/>Do you have suggestions for optimizing resources for big simulations?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details of the simulation machine:<br \/>OS &#8211; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.9<br \/>Memory &#8211; 252 GiB<br \/>Processor &#8211; Intel Xeon(R) Gold 6314U CPU @2.3GHzx64<br \/>GNOME &#8211; v 3.28.2<br \/>OS type &#8211; 64-bit<br \/>Disk &#8211; 1.6 TB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-293155","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-3DFDTD-1","topic-tag-fdtd","topic-tag-hardware-resources-2","topic-tag-lumerical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["289360","2592"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.33.28.204"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["336"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["293155"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["2592","289360"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["293684"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["293684"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-07-18 18:00:05"]},"test":"kaysar95seas-upenn-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/293155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/293155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}