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For steady runs:  (benchmark &#8216;(iterate 200))  It would print the elapsed time for 200 iterations  For unsteady runs (benchmark &#8216;(ti-menu-load-string &#8220;\/solve\/dual-time-iterate 10 20 &#8220;))  It would print the elapsed time for 10 time steps \u00e0 20 iterations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161953","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4422","topic-tag-benchmark","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluent-sys","topic-tag-hpc-parallel","topic-tag-installation-licensing-systems","topic-tag-n-a","topic-tag-speed","topic-tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The \/parallel\/timer\/usage command includes only the solver time and to print Linear solver statistics etc.. It doesn&#039;t include time spent in collecting, and reporting residuals, time spent in calculating and reporting monitors like (force, surface and volume). 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