Reference Guide

Introduction
4 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ Processors—Altair Performance
1 Introduction
This technical white paper discusses the performance of the Altair HyperWorks™ products, Altair Radioss™,
and Altair AcuSolve™ on Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™
processors. Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC were designed and configured specifically for Digital
Manufacturing workloads, where Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications are critical for virtual
product development. The Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing use a flexible building
block approach to HPC system design, where individual building blocks can be combined to build HPC
systems which are optimized for customer specific workloads and use cases.
The Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing are one solution set among many in the
Dell EMC HPC solution portfolio. Please visit www.dellemc.com/hpc for a comprehensive overview of the
available HPC solutions offered by Dell EMC.
The architecture of the Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing and a description of the
building blocks are presented in Section 2. Section 3 describes the system configuration, software and
application versions, and the benchmark test cases that were used to measure and analyze the performance
of the Dell EMC HPC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC processors. Section 4
presents benchmark performance for Altair AcuSolve, and Section 5 contains the performance data for Altair
Radioss.