The document discusses performance tests run by ANSYS on their simulation software using Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3. The tests showed performance increases of 1.38x for ANSYS Mechanical, 1.19x for ANSYS CFX fluid dynamics, and 1.19x for ANSYS Fluent compared to the previous generation Intel processor. These performance gains allow customers to run larger, higher fidelity models and more iterations, improving innovation and product quality.

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ANSYS Mechanical* V15, DMP solver, in-core,
Intel MPI, 10 workloads performance increase
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 ANSYS Mechanical* allows customers to simulate every structural aspect of
a product using linear and nonlinear static analysis or mechanisms analysis.
 The addition of Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) with it’s
extension to 256 bit wide instructions and enhanced vectorization, along with
additional cores and faster memory, combined to create a 1.38x improvement
vs. the previous processor generation.
 Faster run times allow customers to run larger, higher-fidelity models and
more iterations within set times and cost constraints, increasing innovation
and improving overall product quality.
A Powerhouse. Intel® AVX2 makes HPC even
more beneficial for customers and engineering.
Manufacturing
ANSYS
Mechanical v15.0 Engineering Simulation for Manufacturing
“ANSYS and Intel have worked together to help our customers run larger,
higher-fidelity models on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v3
product family. With 1.38x higher performance than the prior generation, this
platform is a powerhouse for most workflows. It helps to make HPC even
more strategic for design and engineering teams.“
Joe Solecki - Vice President, Physics Business Unit, ANSYS, Inc.
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ANSYS
CFX* 15.0 CFD - General purpose fluid dynamics program
“ANSYS and Intel have worked together to help our customers run larger,
higher-fidelity models on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v3
product family. With 1.19x higher performance than the prior generation, this
platform is a powerhouse for most workflows. It helps to make HPC an even
more strategic technology for design and engineering teams.“
Joe Solecki - Vice President, Physics Business Unit, ANSYS, Inc
ANSYS CFX* improvement (geomean 77.11 to 64.8
seconds) with Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3
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 Great scalability and more operations per clock of Intel® Xeon® Processor
E5-2600 v3 series allows standard servers to achieve levels of performance
previously associated with supercomputers.
 For end-users, 1.19x improved performance compared to the previous
generation processor means faster turnaround or solving larger tasks with the
same resources, and with lower TCO.
Performance previously associated with
clusters of high performance compute nodes.
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3. Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v3 Product Family
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ANSYS
Fluent* v15.0 - Engineering Simulation for Manufacturing
“ANSYS and Intel have worked together to help our customers run larger,
higher-fidelity models on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v3
product family. With 1.19x higher performance than the prior generation, this
platform is a powerhouse for Fluent*.“
Joe Solecki - Vice President, Physics Business Unit, ANSYS, Inc
Faster innovation and improved product quality.
Manufacturing
 ANSYS Fluent* is a fully-featured fluid dynamics solution for modeling flow
and other physical phenomena. Engineers gain deep insight into their
designs by simulating the effects of design parameters on aerodynamic
drag, lift, and vibration.
 Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v3 improved parallelism, along with faster
memory speeds has combined to create a 1.19x improvement compared to
the previous processor generation.
 This results in faster runtimes allowing customers to run larger, higher-fidelity
models and more iterations within set times & cost constraints – to
increase innovation and improve overall product quality.
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ANSYS Fluent* performance gain with Intel®
Xeon® processor E5-2697 v3
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Faster
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