Hardware Recommendations and Certifications
View the most recent recommended graphic boards, laptops and desktop hardware configurations.
Recommended Graphics Boards
Recommended CAE/CAD graphic boards to use with HyperWorks applications.
AMD Graphics Cards
Products | GPU Model | Driver Version |
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Radeon™ Pro | VII WX 9100 W5700(*) WX 8200 W5500(*) WX 7100 WX 5100 WX 4100 WX 3200 WX 3100 WX 2100 |
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Radeon™ Pro Mobility | WX 7130 WX 7100 WX 4170 WX 4150 WX 4130 WX 3100 WX 2100 |
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NVIDIA Graphics Boards
Products | GPU Model | Driver Version | |||
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M (Maxwell) |
P (Pascal) |
V (Volta) |
Turing (RTX) | ||
Quadro Series | M2000 M4000 M5000 M6000 |
P400 P420 P600 P620 P1000 P2000 P2200 P4000 P5000 P5200 P6000 GP100 |
GV100 | RTX 3000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 RTX 6000 RTX 8000 |
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Quadro Mobility | M500M M520M M600M M620M M1000M M2000M M2200M M3000M M4000M M5000M |
P500 P520 P600 P620 P1000 P2000 P3000 P3200 P4000 P4200 P5000 P5200 |
N/A | T1000 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
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- Minimum OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 2.1 Requirement
- Virtual server/clients and VirtualGL setups may work, but are not officially tested or supported.
- NVIDIA Optimus or AMD Switchable Graphics
- In order to ensure best performance, these options should be set to use discrete NVIDIA or AMD GPU and not the Intel GPU.
- Power Options and Mobility Center
- In order to ensure best performance, these options should be maximum performance for both GPU and CPU.
- Graphics Driver Corruption or Installation Issues
- In order to ensure best driver compatibility, it is recommended to use “Custom” and “Clean” install options instead of the general “Express” driver installer options.
Recommended Workstation Desktop and Laptop/Notebook Hardware
DELL Workstations - Desktops (1 of 2)
Product | Workstation Model | |||
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Precision Workstation | 3420T / 3430T | 3440 SFF | 3460 (mini) | 3620T / *3630T *3930 Rack |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | P400 P600 P620 P1000 |
P400 P620 P1000 |
RTX 3000 | P400 P600 P620 P1000 P2000 P4000 P5000 *RTX 4000 *RTX 5000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | WX 2100 WX 3100 WX 4100 |
WX 3200 | N/A | WX 2100 WX 3100 WX 4100 WX 5100 WX 7100 |
DELL Workstations - Desktops (2 of 2)
Product | Workstation Model | ||
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Precision Workstation | 3640T / 3930 Rack* | 5810 | 5820 / 7820 / 7920 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | P400 P620 P1000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 RTX 6000* |
P400 P600 P1000 P2000 P4000 P6000 |
P400 P620 P1000 P2200 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 RTX 6000 RTX 8000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | W5500 W5700 WX 3200 WX 4100* WX 7100 |
W7100 W8100 W9100 WX 4100 WX 5100 WX 7100 |
W5500 W5700 WX 3200 |
DELL Workstations - Laptops (1 of 3)
Product | Workstation Model | |||
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Precision Workstation | 3550 | 3551 | 5530 | 5540 / 5740 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | P520 | P620 | P1000M P2000M |
T1000 T2000 RTX 3000* |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
DELL Workstations - Laptops (2 of 3)
Product | Workstation Model | ||||
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Precision Workstation | 5520 AIO | 5520 | 5550 / 5750* | 5720 | 7520 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | N/A | M1200M | T1000 T2000 RTX 3000* |
N/A | P3000M P5000M |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | WX 4150 | N/A | N/A | WX7100M | WX 7100 |
DELL Workstations - Laptops (3 of 3)
Product | Workstation Model | ||||
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Precision Workstation | 7530 | 7540 / 7740 | 7550 / 7750 | 7720 | 7730 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | P2000M P3200M P4000M |
T1000 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
T1000 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
M1200M P3000M P4000M P5000M |
P3200M P4200M P5200M |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | WX 4150 | WX 3200 WX 7130 |
N/A | WX 7100 | WX 4150 WX 7100 |
Lenovo Workstations - Desktops (1 of 2)
Product | Workstation Model | ||
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Lenovo ThinkStation | P320 SFF / P320 TWR* |
P330 SFF / P330 TWR* |
P340 SFF / P340 TWR* |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU (442.92 or higher) | P400 P600 P1000 P2000* P4000* |
P400 P620 P1000 P2000* P2200* P4000* |
P400 P620 P1000 P2200 RTX 4000* RTX 5000* |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Lenovo Workstations - Desktops (2 of 2)
Product | Workstation Model | ||||
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Lenovo ThinkStation | P520 | P520c | P620 (AMD Ryzen PRO 3975X) | P720 / P920 | NEC (mini) |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU (442.92 or higher) | P400 P620 P1000 P2200 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 RTX 6000 |
P400 P620 P1000 P2200 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
P620 P1000 P2200 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 RTX 6000 RTX 8000 GP100 |
P400 P620 P1000 P2200 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 RTX 6000 RTX 8000 |
P1000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | W5500 W5700 |
N/A | N/A |
Lenovo Workstations - Laptops (*Windows 10 support only) (1 of 3)
Product | Workstation Model | |||||||
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Lenovo ThinkPad | P1 Gen1 |
P1 Gen2* |
P1 Gen3 |
P14s | P14s Gen1 |
P15 Gen1 |
P15s Gen1 |
P15v Gen1 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | P1000M P2000M |
T1000 T2000 |
T1000 T2000 |
P520 | P520 | T1000 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 |
P520 | P620 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Lenovo Workstations - Laptops (*Windows 10 support only) (2 of 3)
Product | Workstation Model | ||||||
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Lenovo ThinkPad | P17 Gen1 |
P40 Yoga |
P43s* | P50 | P50s | P51 | P51s |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | T1000 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
M500M | P520 | M1000M M2000M |
M500M | M1200M M2200M |
M520M |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Lenovo Workstations - Laptops (*Windows 10 support only) (3 of 3)
Product | Workstation Model | ||||||
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Lenovo ThinkPad | P52 | P52s | P53* | P53s* | P71 | P72 | P73* |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU (442.92 or higher) | P1000 P2000 P3200 |
P500 | T1000 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 |
P520 | M620M P3000 P4000 P5000 |
P600 P2000 P3200 P4200 P5200 |
P620 T2000 RTX 3000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Acer Workstations and Laptops (*Windows 10 support only)
Product | Workstation Model | ||
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Acer | ConceptD 500* |
ConceptD 700* |
Veriton K8 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | RTX 4000 | RTX 4000 | RTX 4000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Product | Mobile Workstation Model | |||
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Acer | ConceptD 3 Pro* |
ConceptD 5 Pro* (CN515-71P) |
ConceptD 5 Pro* (CN517-71P) |
ConceptD 7 Pro* |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | T1000 | T1000 | RTX 3000 | RTX 3000 RTX 5000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Altos Workstations and Laptops (*Windows 10 support only)
Product | Workstation Model | |
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Altos Computing |
BrainSphere™ P130 F5 |
BrainSphere™ P530 F4 |
NVIDIA Quadro GPU | RTX 2000 | K420 P400 K620 K1200 P1000 P2000 P4000 P5000 P6000 GP100 RTX 2000 RTX 4000 RTX 5000 |
AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU | N/A | N/A |
Comments
For NVIDIA GPU based laptops/notebooks the Optimus power saving option in the BIOS should be disabled and the NVIDIA drivers properly installed for optimal performance in HyperWorks.
For AMD GPU based laptops/notebooks; the Enduro/Switchable Graphics power saving option should be disabled and the AMD drivers properly installed for optimal performance in HyperWorks.
Optimus (Intel/NVIDIA) enabled drivers may create performance issues with notebooks/laptops compared to a dedicated non-shared GPU driver. Disabling the Optimus feature in BIOS, if available, will help give the best overall graphics performance.
Disable nView Window manager under NVIDIA drivers if you experience random crashes and/or issues.
All power saving modes, settings and governors for CPU frequencies and GPU performance should be set to maximum settings in order to get the optimal performance out of HyperWorks. This includes smooth graphics and high frame rates (FPS) on Windows and Linux platforms.
HyperWorks 2021 Solver Hardware Configuration Recommendations
Recommended hardware configurations for HyperWorks Solvers.
AcuSolve Solver
Problem Size | Small | Medium | Large |
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Typical Workload Steady State or Transient |
Steady state: Up to 1M nodes Transient: Up to 100K nodes |
Steady state: Up to 10M nodes Transient: Up to 1M nodes |
Steady state: Greater than 10M nodes Transient: Greater than 1M nodes |
Throughput 1 | Single job | Single job | Single job |
CPU 2 | Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or AMD EPYC 7002 series |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or AMD EPYC 7002 series |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or AMD EPYC 7002 series |
Number of CPU / node | 1-4 | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Number of cores / node | 32 – 128 | 32 – 128 | 32 – 128 |
Number of nodes | 1-8 | 8 – 48 | >48 |
Minimum Memory Configuration / node 3 | 300MB to 3GB | 3GB to 30GB | More than 30GB (3KB per CFD node) |
Storage (minimum) | 500 GB SATA or SSD | 1.5 TB local storage | 1.5 TB local storage |
Network Interconnect | Gigabit Ethernet Or Infiniband | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path |
Operating System | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or
higher Windows 7 or 10 |
Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher |
GPU | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPI | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher |
Setup (2000-3000 computational nodes per core) |
Pure OpenMP or Hybrid OpenMP/MPI | Hybrid OpenMP/MPI | Hybrid OpenMP/MPI |
Hyper Threading | Not recommended | Not recommended | Not recommended |
Feko Solver
Problem Size | Small | Medium | Large |
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General recommendations given for MoM and MLFMM dependent on problem size in terms of number of unknowns / mesh elements. For other solution methods (FEM, FDTD, RL-GO, PO, UTD) many factors to be considered. | Pure MoM: less than 50k
unknowns. MLFMM: between 100k and 500k unknowns |
Pure MoM: between 50k and 100k
unknowns. MLFMM: between 500k and 5M unknowns |
Pure MoM: >100k unknowns MLFMM: >5M unknowns |
Throughput 1 | Single job | Single large job or few jobs in parallel | Single very large job or multiple jobs |
CPU 2 | Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or later |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or later |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or later |
Number of CPU / node | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Number of cores / node | 32 – 56 | 32 – 56 | 32 – 56 |
Number of nodes | 1 | 8 – 16 | > 16 |
Minimum Memory Configuration / node 3 | 64 GB | 128 GB | 256 GB |
Storage (minimum) | 500 GB SATA or SSD | 500 GB SATA or SSD | 500 GB SATA or SSD |
Network Interconnect | Gigabit Ethernet | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path |
Operating System | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or
higher Windows 7 or 10 |
Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher |
GPU | Yes | No | No |
MPI | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher |
Setup | Pure MPI | Pure MPI | Pure MPI |
Hyper Threading | Not recommended | Not recommended | Not recommended |
Flux Solver
Problem type | Small | Medium | Large |
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Typical Workload (depending on number of DOF, element type, and other factors) | < 300 000 DOF | Around 500 000 DOF | Around 5M DOF |
Throughput 1 | Single | Single | Single |
CPU 2 | Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” |
Number of CPU / node | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Number of cores / node | 8 | 16 | 16+ |
Number of nodes | 1 | 1 | 1-4 |
Minimum Memory Configuration / node 3 | 8 GB | 16-32 GB | 300GB |
Storage (minimum) | 500 GB SATA or SSD | 1 TB local storage SSD | 1.5 TB local storage SSD |
Network Interconnect | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path | ||
Operating System | Linux kernel 3.10.0-693 or
higher Windows 7 or 10 with SSD |
Linux kernel 3.10.0-693 or
higher Windows 7 or 10 with SSD |
Linux kernel 3.10.0-693 or
higher Windows 7 or 10 with SSD |
GPU | No | No | No |
MPI | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher |
Setup | SMP | SMP or Hybrid 2MPI/node | SMP or Hybrid 2MPI/node |
Hyper Threading | Not recommended | Not recommended | Not recommended |
Radioss Solver
Problem Size | Small | Medium | Large |
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Typical Workload Crash & Impact |
Component tests, sled test, drop test, … Less than 500K elements |
Medium crash model, between 1 and 6 millions of elements model | Accurate car crash model (rupture), very large model with size > 6 million elements |
Throughput 1 | Single job | Single large job or few jobs in parallel | Single very large job or multiple jobs |
CPU 2 | Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or AMD EPYC 7002 series |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or AMD EPYC 7002 series |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” or AMD EPYC 7002 series |
Number of CPU / node | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Number of cores / node | 32 – 64 | 32 – 128 | 32 – 128 |
Number of nodes | 1 | 8 – 16 | > 16 |
Minimum Memory Configuration / node 3 | 64-128GB | 64-128GB | 64-128GB |
Storage (minimum) | 500 GB SATA or SSD | 1,5 TB local storage | 1,5 TB local storage |
Network Interconnect | Gigabit Ethernet | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path | Infiniband or Intel Omni-path |
Operating System | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher Windows 7 or 10 |
Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher |
GPU | No | No | No |
MPI | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher |
Setup | Pure MPI | Pure MPI or Hybrid with 2 or 4 OpenMP threads per MPI | Hybrid with 2 or 4 OpenMP threads per MPI |
Hyper Threading 5 | Yes, Hybrid with 2 OpenMP per MPI | Not recommended | Not recommended |
OptiStruct Solver
Problem type | Small or medium | Large static | Large dynamic |
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Typical Workload (depending on number of DOF, element type, and other factors) | Nonlinear - less than 2M DOF; linear static - less than 5M DOF; NVH - less than 5M DOF | Nonlinear - more than 2M DOF; linear static - more than 5M DOF | NVH - more than 5M DOF |
Throughput 1 | Single | Single | Single or few jobs in parallel |
CPU 2 | Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake” |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake |
Dual CPU socket For example, Intel Xeon Gold “Cascade Lake” or “Skylake |
Number of CPU / node | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Number of cores / node | 8-24 | 24+ | 24+ |
Number of nodes | 1 | 1-8 | 1-8 |
Minimum Memory Configuration / node 3 | 16-64GB | 128GB | 256GB |
Storage (minimum) | 512GB local storage | 1TB local storage | 3 TB local storage, SSD and RAID0 recommended |
Network Interconnect | InfiniBand or Intel Omni-path | InfiniBand or Intel Omni-path | |
Operating System | Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher Windows 7 or 10 with SSD |
Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher Windows 7 or 10 with SSD |
Linux kernel 2.6.32 or higher Windows 7 or 10 with SSD |
GPU | Yes | No | No |
MPI | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher | Intel MPI 2018.4 or higher |
Setup | SMP or DDM hybrid | DDM hybrid | SMP or DDM hybrid |
Hyper Threading | Not recommended | Not recommended | Not recommended |
Recommended GPU Computing Processor List for OptiStruct
Recommended graphic boards for use with the Altair HyperWorks solver suite of applications for high-powered GPU computing.
Manufacturer and Model | Graphics Card | Driver Version (Minimum or Higher) |
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NVIDIA (Tesla) |
P100 V100 |
Linux (64-bit) 387.26 Windows (64-bit) 391.03 |
NVIDIA (Quadro) |
GP100 GV100 |
Linux (64-bit) 387.26 Windows (64-bit) 391.03 |
Additional Information on Driver Installations
The NVIDIA Driver Update recommendation is to use the Custom installation option and select the Perform clean installation option to validate that there are no conflicts in DLL/drivers.