LS-DYNA® Performance on Intel® Scalable Solutions

Along with the Intel® Purley platform launch, a series of cost-effective products such as the Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable Family (formerly code-named Skylake-SP), Intel® Omni-Path Architecture fabric, Intel® SSDs, Intel® MPI 2018 library, and Intel® Math Kernel Libraries (MKL) have been released in 2017. In this paper we study and evaluate the impact of these Intel products on LS-DYNA application. Numerous factors affect application performance and must be investigated and understood to ensure top performance and value to our customers. Intel has characterized LS-DYNA Explicit and Implicit scalability performance through extensive benchmarking and has determined the optimal factors to be considered for the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture fabric, Intel® MPI, Intel MKL and the Skylake-SP processor.