Reference Guide

Introduction
4 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ Processors—Siemens’ Simcenter
STAR-CCM+™ Performance
1 Introduction
This technical white paper discusses the performance of Siemens’ Simcenter STAR-CCM+™ on the Dell
EMC Ready Solutions for HPC Digital Manufacturing with AMD EPYC™ processors. This Dell EMC Ready
Solutions for HPC 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 Simcenter STAR-CCM+.