Workstation for Abaqus 1

[masoudkl]

I am looking to put together a system dedicated to abaqus 6.12-3 (maybe $5-6k) using gpgpu computation. What should I know? Is there any additional licensing or will it just recognize my card and allow me to check off 'Use GPGPU Acceleration'? And do the cards have to be of a certain list only (Quadro 6000, maybe K4000, K5000?, Teslas)? It would be nice to be able to test this out with a cheaper GPU before buying all the high end equipment.

 

[burningDiesel]

you need CUDA enabled gpus, both quadro & tesla are I think.
you need +1 licence for the gpu, but this can be taken from your normal licence group.
You can also see if your simulation would speed up at

http://www.accelerateabaqusongpu.com/

 

[IceBreakerSours]

sdebock: Have you ran any models on GPUs? I'd like to try one out sometime.

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[masoudkl]

Thank you sdebock for your prompt response. I have not ran any model with GPU, but as I did some research in the web, GPU gives access to numerous cores for the analysis, and this is what I am trying to do. I will keep you posted once I purchased the new machine and run the analysis on it with GPU.

 

[burningDiesel]

No I haven't, I do mostly abq explicit stuff, which (I think) benefits less from the GPU computing - and is not even supported in 6.12, also GPU's (and beefed up PSU) don't come cheap compared to the cost of academic licenses.
The Abaqus representatives keep going on about it though. On the website in the post above you can run your simulation to try out the speedup you would get.

 

[AmyLovisa]

Hi,

I'm interested in accelerating my analysis with a GPU also. Ideally I would like to use the Tesla K20 GPU, but I have nearly exhausted my research budget. Do you think the NVIDIA Geforce GTX Titan would work well? It is CUDA enabled and has similar hardware to the Tesla.

Thanks,
Amy

 

[loki3000]

yes, the titan will also work, but it doesn't have ecc. its not that big of a deal if your calcs are not a week long for example.