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ANSYS Acceleration on NVIDIA GPUs

 
 
Leading engineering organizations understand the importance of adopting simulation to decrease the number of physical prototypes they build in their product development process. Companies realize that time is money in making design decisions and the more design iterations you can simulate the better optimized your final product. As a result ANSYS has recently added support for GPU computing that can accelerate simulation times by 4x or more.

And now, by combining the latest release of ANSYS Mechanical with the new NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology, you can run simulations locally at your desk without impacting overall productivity.

Learn more on our Maximus workstation page.

Innovate Faster with GPU-Accelerated ANSYS Products:

> ANSYS Mechanical for structural response simulations > ANSYS Nexim for electronics signal integrity analysis

Recommended Professional Products
The powerful GPU computing capabilities in ANSYS were developed on NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and require the use of recent CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPUs, such as the Tesla 20-series products, and supporting CUDA v3.1 or above (learn more).

Tesla GPU computing products are designed to deliver the highest computational performance with the most reliable numerical accuracy, and are available and supported by the world's leading professional system manufacturers.

Tesla Benefits
Highest Computational Performance
> High-speed double precision operations
> Large dedicated memory
> CUDA-Accelerated math libraries
> High-speed bi-directional PCIe communication
> NVIDIA GPUDirect™ with InfiniBand
Most Reliable
> ECC memory
> Rigorous stress testing
> ANSYS QA testing
Best Supported
> Professional support network
> Large and growing developer community
> OEM system integration
> Long-term product lifecycle
> 3 year warranty
> Cluster & system management tools
   (server products)
> Windows remote desktop support
 
Recommended Configurations
Workstations
> Existing System
  • Tesla C2050 (3GB) for < 3M DOF
  • Tesla C2070 (6GB) for > 3M DOF
> New System Purchase
  • Total 6-8 CPU cores
  • Total 32-48 GBs of CPU memory
  • Disk with minimum 500 GB
> GPU OPTIONS
  • Tesla C2050 or Tesla C2070
  • Quadro FX380 for pre/post
OR a single GPU
  • Quadro 6000 for compute and pre/post
Servers
> New System Purchase
  • Total 4 CPUs with 6-8 CPU cores each
  • Total 4 x16 PCIe (one for each GPU)
  • Total 128 to 192 GBs of CPU memory
  • Disk with minimum 2000 GB (scratch)
  • 4 x Tesla M2050 or Tesla M2070/M2075

NVIDIA Tesla and Quadro products are available from all major professional workstation OEMs. Only Tesla GPU computing products are designed and qualified for compute cluster deployment.

Buy Optimized Tesla Systems

NVIDIA partners with system vendors to provide optimal solutions that accelerate your HPC workloads. Buy now and enjoy all the benefits of GPU-acceleration on ANSYS.

For a complete list of Tesla Preferred Providers, click here.