How to get the best from my Workstation

[DavidQ]

Hello Eng-Tips
I just get an brand new workstation to work with NX 7.5 at my job; this little monster is a HP Z820 workstation with Intel Xeon CPU ES-2609 4C @ 2.40GHz 10MB (2processors), 32GB DDR3-1600 2-CPU RAM, Win7 Enterpise SP1 x64, 2x HDD 2TB SATA 7200 and NVIDIA Quadro 400 2GB GFX Special...is possible that I will never seen anything like this in my life again (unless I Win the lottery if I bought a lot of tickets). What I can do to get a 100% of performace, reduce components loading time, components updating time and the slow motion/rotate a model with thousands of curves, faces and model complexity?

Any idea?
Best Regards

 

[JohnRBaker]

If you use NX as it comes out of the box, it will pretty much take maximum advantage of your hardware. One thing that you will need to check though is that you've set the environment variable so that NX takes advantage of your multiple processors. This variable, UGII_SMP_ENABLE = 1, can be set in the 'ugii_env.dat' file, but personally I would set this variable in the system profile so that it would be set for all versions of NX that you may install in the future.

As for getting the maximum performance with large assembly I would review the setting that you'll find in...

Preferences -> Visualization Performance...

Anyway, others may have some advice, but this will get you started. Have fun...

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[RUGmechanic]

Hp Z820:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2640 15Mb 2.5Ghz
64Gb DDR3-1600 RAM
2x SSD 256 GB Raid0
1x HDD 2TB data disk
1x Nvidia Quadro 6000 (Never thought my boss would agree on this one)
Win7 prof 64bit

1x HP ZR30W
1x HP LP3065

NX 7.5 & NX8.5.2.3

I have been using HP workstations all my Unigrahics/NX life and never had a hardware failure. I have no experience with other brands like Dell.

I use NX / NX Nastran, Office, Mathcad on a daily basis.
My HP is a stand-alone WS. I move all part files I work on to the system disks, as these are faster than my data disk.
As far as graphics go: Flawless, except Advanced studio display, ambient shadows enabled (even in single part files). But feel free to ask for any settings.




Older budweiser
NX8.5 64bit, hp z820

 

[SDETERS]

One thing I like to do in Windows 7. In Windows 7 go to start control panel system and security system and advanced system settings Go to the advanced tab. Then go into the Performance settings. I have my visual effects set to adjust for best performance. This takes all the fancy animation and stuff out of Windows.

 

[looslib]

Turn off hyperthreading in the bios.


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[DavidQ]

Thanks all for your advice really helpful, I will push to the edge this little moster to see what is capable of...for now working with a cast model is slow: saving, deleting faces, rotating...anything; uff after 3 mins it finally finish saving the part, is that normal?.

Best Regards

 

[RUGmechanic]

Is the part located on a network drive?
What is the size of the part?

Older budweiser
NX8.5 64bit, hp z820

 

[DavidQ]

Hi RUGmechanic, is located on the second drive and it size is as assembly (with two more models) is 367MB and as part 128MB.

REgards

 

[looslib]

That isn't a bad save time. At one point I was testing network speed and got better results from the network drive than the local C:| drive. It was a 71MB file made with a lot of copy commands to get a good sized file.

NX writes a new file everytime you save, then deletes the old one and renames it. Available disk space can be an issue, or a fragmented drive.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli