Business Challenges in Product Development

Complex simulations

Faster time-to-market

Improve product-quality

More design points

can be analyzed for

better-quality products

without slipping project

schedules

Simulation times can

be cut into half, thus

shorter product

development times

Mesh sizes can be

doubled or advanced

models can be used

without increasing

simulation times

For some models 57%

Nearly every model 34%

Almost never

9%

Frequency of limiting size/detail in simulation models due to compute infrastructure or turnaround time limitations

What challenges are ANSYS customers facing today?

Source: HPC usage survey by ANSYS with over 1,800 respondents

ANSYS® Mechanical 15.0

ANSYS 15.0 HPC licenses (new)

• Treats each GPU socket as a CPU core, which significantly increases simulation

productivity from HPC licenses

• All ANSYS HPC products unlock GPUs in 15.0, including HPC, HPC Pack, HPC

Workgroup, and HPC Enterprise products.

License type ANSYS 14.5 ANSYS 15.0

HPC per core licenses None 1 HPC license – 1 GPU

2 HPC licenses – 2 GPUs

‘N’ HPC licenses – ‘N’ GPUs

HPC pack 1 HPC pack – 1 GPU

2 HPC packs – 4 GPUs

1 HPC pack – 4 GPUs

2 HPC packs – 16 GPUs

GPU support in ANSYS – Licensing comparison

• In addition to the expanded support, ANSYS revised the HPC licensing policy in

version 15.0 in favor of GPUs

Higher is

Better

GPU value proposition for Mechanical15.0

V14sp-6 Model

AN

SY

S M

echanic

al jo

bs/

day

V14sp-6 benchmark, 4.9 M DOF, static non-linear

analysis; direct sparse solver, distributed ANSYS

Mechanical 15.0 with Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 2.7 GHz

CPU; Tesla K20 GPU.

Simulation productivity

Benefit

100%

25%

100%

180%

CPU GPU

Cost

CPU-only solution cost is approximated and includes

both hardware and software license costs. Benefit is

based on the number of completed Mechanical jobs/day.

CPU-only

solution cost

Simulation

productivity from

CPU-only system

Additional

productivity from

GPU

Additional cost of

adding a GPU +

HPC license

7X

Additional productivity/$

spent on GPUs

With one HPC license + Tesla K20

2 CPU cores 2 CPU cores

+ Tesla K20

59

165

2.8X

Higher is

Better

CPU GPU

GPU value proposition for Mechanical15.0

Simulation productivity

Benefit

100%

12%

100%

50%

Cost

CPU-only solution cost is approximated and

includes both hardware and software license costs.

Benefit is based on the number of completed

Mechanical jobs/day.

CPU-only

solution cost

Simulation

productivity from

CPU-only system

Additional

productivity from

GPU

Additional cost of

adding a GPU

4X

Additional productivity/$

spent on GPUs

With an HPC pack + Tesla K20

V14sp-6 benchmark, 4.9 M DOF, static non-linear

analysis; direct sparse solver, distributed ANSYS

Mechanical 15.0 with Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 2.7 GHz

CPU; Tesla K20 GPU.

AN

SY

S M

echanic

al jo

bs/

day

V14sp-6 Model

8 CPU cores 7 CPU cores

+ Tesla K20

180

270

1.5X

Higher is

Better

GPU value proposition for Mechanical15.0

V14sp-5 Model

AN

SY

S M

echanic

al jo

bs/

day

V14sp-5 benchmark, 2.1 M DOF, static non-linear

analysis; direct sparse solver, distributed ANSYS

Mechanical 15.0 with Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 2.7 GHz

CPU; Tesla K40 GPU.

Simulation productivity

Benefit

100%

35%

100%

290%

CPU GPU

Cost

CPU-only solution cost is approximated and includes

both hardware and software license costs. Benefit is

based on the number of completed Mechanical jobs/day.

CPU-only

solution cost

Simulation

productivity from

CPU-only system

Additional

productivity from

GPU Additional cost of

adding a GPU +

HPC license

8X

Additional productivity/$

spent on GPUs

With one HPC license + Tesla K40

2 CPU cores 2 CPU cores

+ Tesla K40

93

363

3.9X

Higher is

Better

CPU GPU

GPU value proposition for Mechanical15.0

Simulation productivity

Benefit

100% 100%

120%

Cost

CPU-only solution cost is approximated and

includes both hardware and software license costs.

Benefit is based on the number of completed

Mechanical jobs/day.

CPU-only

solution cost

Simulation

productivity from

CPU-only system

Additional

productivity from

GPU

6X

Additional productivity/$

spent on GPUs

With an HPC pack + Tesla K40 A

NSY

S M

echanic

al jo

bs/

day

V14sp-5 Model

V14sp-5 benchmark, 2.1 M DOF, static non-linear

analysis; direct sparse solver, distributed ANSYS

Mechanical 15.0 with Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 2.7 GHz

CPU; Tesla K40 GPU.

8 CPU cores 7 CPU cores

+ Tesla K40

275

600

2.2X

19%

Additional cost of

adding a GPU

100% 100%

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