Power of SIMULIA Portfolio 2: Increasing the Value of your SIMULIA Tokens

Have you ever wanted to make your Abaqus analyses run faster?  Or maybe you have a limited SIMULIA token pool and want to run your analysis using the least number of tokens? 

 

Of course you have!

Watch the eSeminar video below for:

  • Information on the SIMULIA licensing schemes.  Learn what licenses run which SIMULIA Portfolio products and how many tokens are used.
  • How to make your Abaqus analysis run faster or use less tokens for FREE!
    • Best practices
    • Abaqus analysis settings
    • Computer configurations
  • What hardware you can buy to make your Abaqus analysis run faster.
  • How to save over 60% on licensing by combining Isight and Abaqus to perform design studies.
  • A comparison between running analyses in series on an HPC vs. in parallel on workstations.

Click here to watch the video:

(recorded February 26, 2016)

 

Links mentioned in video:

 

Clarifications/Corrections to the video:

  • GPUs look like additional CPU cores with Abaqus licensing following the curve shown in the licensing portion.  At lower CPU core counts, each GPU used adds a solver token just like each additional core.  
  • fe-safe needs 7 Extended Tokens to run a fatigue analysis.
  • Tosca needs a minimum of 5 Extended Tokens to run a linear optimization not counting the FEA solver.
  •  Isight needs 1 Extended Token to run an Abaqus DOE.  It is possible to run some simple loops using 0 tokens for Isight.
    • In the example of Isight savings with an Abaqus analysis using 10 tokens, the total token usage for an Isight DOE is 5 tokens (1 for Isight + 4 for Abaqus).

 

Remember that speed improvements are analysis dependent.  Try techniques on your own models to verify their effectiveness.

 

Please leave any questions/comments below or contact your local SIMULIA support office.