Reference Guide

Introduction
4 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ Processors—ANSYS®
Performance
1 Introduction
This technical white paper discusses the performance of ANSYS® CFX® and Fluent® on the Dell EMC
Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ processors. This Ready Solution was
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 uses 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 is one of many solutions 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 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 ANSYS CFX and Section 5 presents benchmark performance for ANSYS Fluent.