High Performance Computing

An Individual HPC license expands baseline parallel capacity for a single machine, ideal for moderate scaling. HPC Packs multiply compute power exponentially; each pack unlocks additional cores and parallel capabilities, enabling enterprise-level simulation performance.

Each added pack dramatically increases allowable parallelism, reducing solve time for large meshes, transient models, and advanced multiphysics. This scaling is near-linear for many solvers, enabling massive performance gains as packs accumulate.

Yes, many Ansys solvers—including Fluent, Mechanical, and HFSS—use GPU acceleration to reduce memory requirements and speed up meshing, linear algebra routines, and transient solves. GPU-enabled HPC is ideal for large CFD workloads and high-frequency electromagnetics.

Yes. Ansys Cloud Direct and major cloud partners allow you to burst simulations to scalable cloud hardware when local resources reach capacity. Cloud HPC supports encrypted data transfer, on-demand scaling, and pay-as-you-go compute nodes.

HPC runs on multi-core workstations, on-prem clusters, GPU servers, and cloud nodes. Specific requirements depend on model size and solver type, but most workflows benefit from high-core-count CPUs, CUDA-enabled GPUs, and fast interconnects for distributed runs.

Ansys solver licenses inherently comes with 4 cores for free. The HPC license allows you to finitely adjust your cores, while HPC Packs bundle cores together. One HPC Pack gives you 8 additional cores for 12 total cores. 2 HPC Packs give you 32 additional cores for 36 total cores. At the highest level (level 5), HPC Packs can give you up to 2,052 total cores for your simulation.