HP/ANSYS/Microsoft Windows CCS Program

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1 HP/ANSYS/Microsoft Windows CCS Program HP ANSYS and FLUENT Recommended Configurations Technology for better business outcomes 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

2 HP 16-core CAE Cluster Structural Analysis (ANSYS) Four DL380 G5 Woodcrest Xeon-based server nodes, each dual processor, dual core (2p/4c*) Four cores per compute node Node 1 doubles as the DL380 G5 Woodcrest Total Memory for Cluster: up to 80GB RAM 8GB/core or 32GB total on Head node 2 or 4GB/core (8 or 16GB/node) on each 3 remaining compute nodes Storage: from two to eight 72GB SAS drives striped RAID0 on 3 compute nodes plus a 5x72GB SAS RAID0 disk array on Interconnect: GigE cluster switch; 100BT management switch Operating Environment: 64-bit Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Workloads: 56-80GB RAM configurations will handle ANSYS megamodels of M DOF *2 processors, 4 cores total per node=dual core 2 21 January 2008 HP Confidential

3 HP 32-core HP BladeSystem c3000 Cluster CFD (FLUENT) Up to 8 ProLiant BL460c (Xeon) or BL465c (Opteron) nodes, each using 2 dual-core processors* 4 cores per compute node 72GB SAS drive Configure a head node for decomposition, large jobs, and/or pre/post processing. (Two 72GB SAS drives suitable for.) Replace a compute node with a storage node Compute node SB40c Head/compute node Optional storage blade Expansion room for more compute nodes 3 21 January 2008 HP Confidential Total Memory for the Cluster: 64 88GB RAM 2GB/core (8GB/node) Head Node: up to 8GB/core (32GB/node) Cluster Interconnect: InfiniBand DDR (recommended for jobs using 32 cores, external switch required) OR Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Storage: Optional SB40c storage blade Extended direct attached storage on the Up to 6 SFF SAS drives Operating Environment: 64-bit Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Workloads: Ideally suited for FLUENT models up to 50M cells. Or, run 3-4 simultaneous FLUENT models on the scale of 10M cells *2 processors, 4 cores total per node=dual core

4 HP 64-core HP BladeSystem c7000 Cluster CFD (FLUENT) Up to 16 ProLiant BL460c (Xeon) or BL465c (Opteron) nodes, each using 2 dual-core processors* 4 cores per compute node 72GB SAS drive Configure a head node for decomposition, large jobs, and/or pre/post processing. (Two 72GB SAS drives suitable for head node.) Replace a compute node with a storage node or add DL38x as Total Memory for the Cluster: GB RAM 2GB/core (8GB/node) Head Node: up to 8GB/core (32GB/node) Cluster Interconnect: InfiniBand DDR (recommended for jobs using 32 cores and above: external switch required) OR Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Storage: Optional SB40c storage blade Extended direct attached storage on the Up to 6 SFF SAS drives Operating Environment: 64-bit Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Workloads Ideally suited for FLUENT models up to 100M cells. Or, run 6-8 simultaneous FLUENT models on the scale of 10M cells 4 21 January 2008 *2 processors, 4 cores total per node=dual core

5 HP 32-core HP BladeSystem c3000 Cluster CFD (FLUENT) & Structural Analysis (ANSYS) Up to 8 ProLiant BL460c (Xeon) or BL465c (Opteron) nodes, each using 2 dual-core processors* 4 cores per compute node 1-72GB SAS drive (FLUENT CFD) OR 2-72GB SAS drives (ANSYS Structural Analysis) Configure a head node for decomposition, large jobs, and/or pre/post processing. (Two 72GB SAS drives suitable for.) Replace a compute node with a storage node Compute node 5 21 January 2008 SB40c Head/compute node Optional storage blade Expansion room for more compute nodes HP Confidential Total Memory for the Cluster: GB RAM 2-4GB/core (8-16GB/node) Head Node: up to 8GB/core (32GB/node) Cluster Interconnect: InfiniBand DDR (recommended for jobs using 32 cores, external switch required) OR Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Storage: SB40c storage blade; optional for FLUENT CFD, mandatory for ANSYS Structural Analysis Extended direct attached storage on the Up to 6 SFF SAS drives Operating Environment: 64-bit Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Workloads: Ideally suited for FLUENT models up to 50M cells. Or, run 3-4 simultaneous FLUENT models on the scale of 10M cells. Alternatively, this configuration will handle ANSYS models up to 100M DOF. *2 processors, 4 cores total per node=dual core

6 HP 64-core HP BladeSystem c7000 Cluster CFD (FLUENT) Up to 16 ProLiant BL460c (Xeon) or BL465c (Opteron) nodes, each & Structural Analysis (ANSYS) using 2 dual-core processors* 4 cores per compute node 1-72GB SAS drive (FLUENT CFD) OR 2-72GB SAS drives (ANSYS Structural Analysis) Configure a head node for decomposition, large jobs, and/or pre/post processing. (Two 72GB SAS drives suitable for head node.) Replace a compute node with a storage node or add DL38x as Total Memory for the Cluster: GB RAM 2-4GB/core (8-16GB/node) Head Node: up to 8GB/core (32GB/node) Cluster Interconnect: InfiniBand DDR (recommended for jobs using 32 cores and above: external switch required) OR Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Storage: SB40c storage blade; optional for FLUENT CFD, mandatory for ANSYS Structural Analysis Extended direct attached storage on the Up to 6 SFF SAS drives Operating Environment: 64-bit Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Workloads: Ideally suited for FLUENT models up to 100M cells, or run 6-8 simultaneous FLUENT models on the scale of 10M cells. Alternatively, use a portion of the cluster to run ANSYS megamodels up to 120M DOF January 2008 HP Confidential *2 processors, 4 cores total per node=dual core