This chapter discusses commands and utilities for running any of the Abaqus products. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Parallel ordering for the direct sparse solver,” Section 3.1

• “Thread parallel element and contact search calculations for implicit dynamic analyses,” Section 3.2

• “Thread parallel element operations for quasi-static analyses,” Section 3.3

• “Double precision constraint solving within a single precision Abaqus/Explicit execution,” Section 3.4

• “Enhanced support for translation of Nastran bulk data files,” Section 3.5

• “Dynamic load balancing for domain-level parallel execution,” Section 3.6