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

• “Parallel execution of the element operations,” Section 13.1

• “Parallel execution in the analysis input file processor,” Section 13.2

• “Multiple GPGPUs supported in the direct sparse solver,” Section 13.3

• “Translating LS-DYNA input files to partial Abaqus input files,” Section 13.4