I recently scaled my dynamic model based on an open source FEM solver, to run a mesh containing nearly 34 million cells successfully on 800 cores. I have very limited experience using commercial software like ABAQUS, ANSYS, FLAC, PLAXIS, etc. So, I was wondering if this can also be easily achieved using such commercial software? In a nutshell, I want to know if scaling your model to run for large scale problems is easy in commercial software as well. The idea is to highlight the advantages of open source over commercial software. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.
Parallel processing ability of popular commercial software
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