Xeon Phi with ANSYS simulation software

[Intel]

Hey everyone! I was wondering if there would be any way to test the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor to run some research simulations in the ANSYS software. This would be very pertinent to my hobby as I've been looking at getting a Phi card to help speed up the simulations since they regularly take a good portion of a day to run. Another thing i would be interested in is seeing how ANSYS runs with AMD FirePro cards or Nvidia Quadro cards.

[Mark77]

Call up an Applications Engineer at whoever makes ANSYS.  Ask.  If you're paying that much for software, answering questions about it is the least they can do for you.

[EternalSeeker]

9 minutes ago, Intel said:

Hey everyone! I was wondering if there would be any way to test the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor to run some research simulations in the ANSYS software. This would be very pertinent to my hobby as I've been looking at getting a Phi card to help speed up the simulations since they regularly take a good portion of a day to run. Another thing i would be interested in is seeing how ANSYS runs with AMD FirePro cards or Nvidia Quadro cards.

I would talk to them or look into the documentation to see what sort of figures they give with CUDA or OpenCL accelerated computation. I only have experience with Ansys CFX and Fluent, haven't tried the EM or FEA or other suites yet. I believe before you go sinking that much into a Xeon Phi to see if your license can allow that many cores, since i do thing the Xeon Phi is considered add on cores vs an actual gpu? (i maybe wrong). As well how many elements and cells does your mesh consist of that it takes days to run? What is your cpu like? I ran a turbulent flat plate model on a 5960x and for 2000 iterations it only took me maybe 10 mins to run so unless its a multipart simulation I think that its crazy

 

What do you do for your hobby? I am quite interested!!

[EternalSeeker]

9 minutes ago, Intel said:

Hey everyone! I was wondering if there would be any way to test the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor to run some research simulations in the ANSYS software. This would be very pertinent to my hobby as I've been looking at getting a Phi card to help speed up the simulations since they regularly take a good portion of a day to run. Another thing i would be interested in is seeing how ANSYS runs with AMD FirePro cards or Nvidia Quadro cards.

I would talk to them or look into the documentation to see what sort of figures they give with CUDA or OpenCL accelerated computation. I only have experience with Ansys CFX and Fluent, haven't tried the EM or FEA or other suites yet. I believe before you go sinking that much into a Xeon Phi to see if your license can allow that many cores, since i do thing the Xeon Phi is considered add on cores vs an actual gpu? (i maybe wrong). As well how many elements and cells does your mesh consist of that it takes days to run? What is your cpu like? I ran a turbulent flat plate model on a 5960x and for 2000 iterations it only took me maybe 10 mins to run so unless its a multipart simulation I think that its crazy

 

What do you do for your hobby? I am quite interested!!

[Enderman]

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/is-the-intel-xeon-phi-coprocessor-right-for-me

[Intel]

8 hours ago, EternalSeeker said:

I would talk to them or look into the documentation to see what sort of figures they give with CUDA or OpenCL accelerated computation. I only have experience with Ansys CFX and Fluent, haven't tried the EM or FEA or other suites yet. I believe before you go sinking that much into a Xeon Phi to see if your license can allow that many cores, since i do thing the Xeon Phi is considered add on cores vs an actual gpu? (i maybe wrong). As well how many elements and cells does your mesh consist of that it takes days to run? What is your cpu like? I ran a turbulent flat plate model on a 5960x and for 2000 iterations it only took me maybe 10 mins to run so unless its a multipart simulation I think that its crazy

 

What do you do for your hobby? I am quite interested!!

I've mainly been working with the explicit dynamics for ballistic simulations. 

[EternalSeeker]

14 hours ago, Intel said:

I've mainly been working with the explicit dynamics for ballistic simulations. 

Ohh, sounds interesting!! Small arms? Missile and defense? or Launch Vehicles? 

[Intel]

3 hours ago, EternalSeeker said:

Ohh, sounds interesting!! Small arms? Missile and defense? or Launch Vehicles? 

Mainly small arms, it's just a hobby so I work with what schematics I can find. I have a few videos of them on YouTube. Here and here. they're not the best but they're also my first and I'm fairly proud of them.