13.3 Multiple GPGPUs supported in the direct sparse solver

Product: Abaqus/Standard

Benefits: Support for multiple GPGPUs in the direct sparse solver provides faster execution on computers with multiple GPGPU cards.

Description: Multiple GPGPU cards can now be used on a single workstation or cluster compute node. Execution in MPI-based parallel mode is supported with GPGPU acceleration.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

“Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CFD execution,” Section 3.2.2
“Using the Abaqus environment settings,” Section 3.3.1
“Parallel execution: overview,” Section 3.5.1
“Parallel execution in Abaqus/Standard,” Section 3.5.2

Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide

Chapter 4, “Customizing the Abaqus environment”