[Brian_P]

Hello all,

I am a new graduate student modeling wind turbine blades. I am currently simulating Fluent on a dell xsp 435mt system. The simulation is run in parallel with 2 processes. The sim. usually requires 4-5 gigs of memory and cpu runs around 40%, and takes 8-10 hrs to converge. The dell has a 4 core processor with 8 threads, does this mean I can run 8 or 4 processes to speed up sim. time. We have an academic liscense, would that limit the number of processes?

Also have permission to buy a pc for CFD and wind tunell apps in the new lab, with bugdet around $1000. Any recomendations?

Also am thinking of upgrading PC at home for CFD, with a budget of <800$

Thanks

Brian