Abaqus - Reason for stalled simulation with certain number of core (>8)

Hi All,

I am running 2D Planar (Plane Strain) Abaqus/Explicit simulation with three different steps. After end of the first step, simulation does not continue to second step when I used more than 8 nodes. It works perfectly well with 8 nodes. Do you have any idea what is causing this? How can we prevent this behavior?

Best,

Salih ​​​