Hardware purchasing for Fluent

Anna Tian · February 11, 2014, 05:06

Hi,

We are helping a small company on building their CFD department for small aircraft CFD modeling. I'm wondering if there are any tutorial or summarized indications on the hardware purchasing issues, like how to decide the best combinations between the CPU cores number and type and the memory shall we have?

Sorry that this is a quite rough question. But I really have no idea on where to start to think about the hardware purchase issue. Thanks for your help here in advance.

Kaskade · February 11, 2014, 10:04

Hope this helps:

https://storage.ansys.com/corp/2012/...t_practice.pdf
https://storage.ansys.com/corp/2012/...t/it_guide.pdf

Anna Tian · February 11, 2014, 11:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaskade

Hope this helps:

https://storage.ansys.com/corp/2012/...t_practice.pdf
https://storage.ansys.com/corp/2012/...t/it_guide.pdf

Thanks for your post.

Aren't they kind of advertisements from IBM?

Kaskade · February 11, 2014, 11:58

I am sure IBM would like the reader to buy their systems from them. You should always keep any authors intention in the back of your head.

The large document contains a lot of valuable graphs (different interconnects, communication vs actual calculation time) and setup tips. I found it helpful and it was easy on the eyes.

Anna Tian · February 13, 2014, 11:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaskade

I am sure IBM would like the reader to buy their systems from them. You should always keep any authors intention in the back of your head.

The large document contains a lot of valuable graphs (different interconnects, communication vs actual calculation time) and setup tips. I found it helpful and it was easy on the eyes.

Yes. It is very helpful. Thank you for introducing this paper to me. I learn a lot from it.

Is there any other paper which could be also helpful to this topic?

February 11, 2014, 05:06	Hardware purchasing for Fluent	#1
Anna Tian Senior Member Meimei Wang Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 494 Rep Power: 16	Hi, We are helping a small company on building their CFD department for small aircraft CFD modeling. I'm wondering if there are any tutorial or summarized indications on the hardware purchasing issues, like how to decide the best combinations between the CPU cores number and type and the memory shall we have? Sorry that this is a quite rough question. But I really have no idea on where to start to think about the hardware purchase issue. Thanks for your help here in advance. __________________ Best regards, Meimei Last edited by Anna Tian; February 11, 2014 at 06:15.

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February 11, 2014, 10:04		#2
Kaskade Senior Member Onno Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 120 Rep Power: 15	Hope this helps: https://storage.ansys.com/corp/2012/...t_practice.pdf https://storage.ansys.com/corp/2012/...t/it_guide.pdf

February 11, 2014, 11:58		#4
Kaskade Senior Member Onno Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 120 Rep Power: 15	I am sure IBM would like the reader to buy their systems from them. You should always keep any authors intention in the back of your head. The large document contains a lot of valuable graphs (different interconnects, communication vs actual calculation time) and setup tips. I found it helpful and it was easy on the eyes.