Using ANSYS HPC or ANSYS HPC Pack Licenses in ANSYS Electronics Desktop (Maxwell or HFSS)

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Taking advantage of HPC can dramatically speed up solutions for electronics simulations.  Depending on whether you have ANSYS HPC licenses or ANSYS HPC Pack licenses, a different setting needs to be made in the HPC options, as shown here.

In Electronics Desktop, we click Tools > Options > HPC and Analysis Options:

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For ANSYS HPC licenses, we set the option to “Pool”.

For ANSYS HPC Pack licenses, we set the option to “Pack”.

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With ANSYS HPC licenses, each license task enables an additional core for solving.  At release 19, 4 cores are enabled with standard licensing, so adding 8 ANSYS HPC tasks enables solving on 12 cores.  With HPC Pack licenses, the first task enables an additional 8 cores, while a second task enables 8×4 or an additional 32 cores, etc.  For more information, see the ANSYS documentation on HPC licensing.

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