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[monipmf]

Hi everyone,nwe are planning to buy a little cluster for working on 'heavy' projects but I came accross some doubts and it would be great if someone could give me a hand.nI?m used to work on a Windows workstation and, assuming that this cluster will run on Linux (on which I have very little experience), which skills do I have to acquire to being able to work efficiently on that environment?nAnd how the job management will differ from a Windows workstation in terms of GUI, real-time monitor and so on?n nMoreover, how can one estimate the hardware effort required by a project?nWhich are the indicators that can show how many cores and RAM is better to have to solve efficiently a particular model?n n Thanks in advance,nMon

[Keyur Kanade]

Please check nRegards,nKeyurnHow to access Ansys Online Help DocumentnHow to show full resolution imagenGuidelines on the Student CommunitynHow to use Google to search within Ansys Student Communityn

[Rob]

Which solver are you wanting to run? For CFD we may want many cores and a fair amount of RAM: Mechanical doesn't scale as well (it's still pretty good) so you may want fewer cores but more RAM and SSD drives. n

[monipmf]

nnwe do most structural analysis. Do you think it would be possible to stimate the relation between number of equations of a model and hardware requirements?.Thank you,nMon

[Rob]

We have rules of thumb, will have a better idea for Mechanical: I use the Fluent CFD code. n

[Aniket]

For Mechanical performance, Please check:nSpecifically:nto estimate RAM and I/O requirements.nn-AniketnHow to access Ansys help linksnGuidelines for Posting on Ansys Learning Forumn