Quote Originally Posted by antiacid View Post
out of curiosity, why do you disable HT? Also, wouldn't you benefit from buying a better ssd like a c300 or intel 160gb or something bigger for your needs?

Anyway, this seems like a strange thing but why has nobody suggested you overclock that 980x a bit in the thread yet? :P I'd think you could get a good 20-30% reduction in solve time.
The 980X was actually slightly OC'd from 3.33 GHz stock to 4 GHz. I forget if I had kept it that way when I ran this test. But eventually it was OC'd (because CATIA LOVESSS a 4GHz processor).

I disable HTT because of two reasons: The first one is because with HTT, my logical core counts goes up to 12, which means for running Ansys, I would need TWO licenses instead of one. And the logical cores can only give me 10% increase in performance, which I don't think it's worth preventing other people from being able to do their runs. (Yea, that company had a wonky license set up. I've since then, changed jobs and we have an actual cluster running LSF Platform for job submissions.)

The second is because if I don't disable HTT, and only set it run with 8-processors, that results in a LOT of thread/process migration. (BAD. Super BAD). So, without HTT, I can assign 4 cores for the FEA (6 (all) in the event of an emergency and they needed the results badly), and that leaves two for me to design with at the same time.

Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post
the intel ssds are worse and the c300 can be better but its about equal overall.

and overclocking would not help he was out of memory
Yup. That's typically what happens or what can happen. It depends on how I set up the run.

Quote Originally Posted by nascasho View Post
I feel this is appropriate:

LOL. That's funny.

Sorry for the super late responses guys. XS used to email me whenever I get a reply and now it doesn't.