{"id":380513,"date":"2024-08-26T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/inquiry-about-ansys-hpc-package-and-core-requirements\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:51:47","slug":"inquiry-about-ansys-hpc-package-and-core-requirements","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/inquiry-about-ansys-hpc-package-and-core-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry About Ansys HPC Package and Core Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;My lab is going to purchase the HPC license for Ansys ED, specifically HFSS and Maxwell, and we need to understand the HPC pack and determine how many HPC packs we need.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&#8221;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exxactcorp.com\/blog\/engineering-mpd\/ansys-hpc-pack-for-cpus-and-gpus-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This <\/a>webpage explains&lt;\/span&gt;&nbsp;the Ansys HPC packs. According to the webpage, if we want to benefit from GPU acceleration, we will have to buy HPC Pack cores &gt;= GPU Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a 32-core CPU and a H100 GPU (114 SMs).&nbsp;<strong>If we want to enable the GPU acceleration, do I need 3 HPC packs (128 pack cores): 114 GPU SMs + 14 CPU cores?&nbsp;<\/strong>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am also not sure if GPU SM counts take over CPU core counts. <strong>If we end up having 3 HPC packs (128 pack cores) and want to enable GPU acceleration, can we enable 32 CPU cores or only 14 CPU cores?<\/strong>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-380513","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-hpc-2","topic-tag-hpc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["32474","2937"],"_bbp_author_ip":["2607:4000:200:76:cc98:9d47:392d:7486"],"_btv_view_count":["2828"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["32474"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:1:{i:380514;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:32474;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"],"_bbp_topic_id":["380513"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["2937","32474"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["382046"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["382046"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-09-09 17:48:08"]},"test":"kediuw-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/380513","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/380513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380514,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/380513\/revisions\/380514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}