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March 4, 2011, 06:21 |
Optimizing CPU usage
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Trevor
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Hello there.
I have a quick question about using mesher in Ansys 13. Currently, whenever I generate a mesh, it only uses 25% of my processing power. I assume this is because I have a quad core, and it is set to only use a single core. I know how to change this setting when starting fluent, but I don't know how to change this setting in mesher. I have gone under tools -> options, and set my CPUs to 4, but that didn't seem to do anything. Any idea how to get mesher to use all the processing power my computer has available? |
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March 5, 2011, 10:24 |
SMP (shared memory parallel)
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Simon Pereira
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It depends on the mesher. Some methods such as PI Tetra, Uniform Quad, "Post" Prism and MultiZone are multi threaded and can use SMP up to 8 CPUs... But other methods don't. You can change the number of CPU's (I forget where exactly), but by default, it is set to 0, which is a nonsensical number that means "use them all".
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March 8, 2011, 21:13 |
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Me too! I also want to know how to maximize my CPU usage during meshing.
Any idea? Anyone? Thanks!! |
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March 8, 2011, 21:22 |
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