HyperWorks 12.0 Release Notes

Application Unit Draw
There are a few changes made to the HyperWorks 12.0 product license unit draw:
1. HyperWorks Units required to run HyperStudy are reduced from 38 to 25.
2. solidThinking Inspire and Evolve 9.0 are included in HyperWorks 12.0. It requires 21 HWUs to
run Inspire and 10 HWUs to launch Evolve.
Solver Unit Draw
The major license changes for the HyperWorks Solvers (AcuSolve, RADIOSS, MotionSolve, OptiStruct,
and HyperXtrude) in V12.0 includes the support of GPU computing and the co-simulation / multiphysics
simulation between AcuSolve/RADIOSS and AcuSolve/AcuTrace.
With HyperWorks 12.0 solvers, nVIDIA graphic cards can be used to decrease the runtime. This
heterogeneous computing model is particularly suitable for those equation solver dominant types
of jobs; for example, nonlinear static analysis on power train structure, or topology optimization on
blocky structures, and is available on Linux operating systems.
For the license draw, one GPU is counted as one additional CPU-core. For example, if running a
RADIOSS job using 4 cores plus 1 GPU, it will be considered as 5 cores.
When performing a multi-physics or co-simulation run with HyperWorks solvers, the total number of
HyperWorks units required is based on the number or CPU-cores plus GPUs that are used in total for
this simulation. The HWU draw is determined just like it is done for a single solver run.
For example, AcuSolve on 32 CPU-cores, co-simulating with RADIOSS on 4 cores for a Fluid Structure
Interaction (FSI) simulation will be considered in the exact same way as one single job running on 36
CPU-cores.
The base license draw for solver jobs running on 1-4 CPU-cores / GPU is shown in the following table:
HyperWorks Units Feature Name Functionality
1 RadiossCheck RADIOSS (Block Format) Starter
RADIOSS (Bulk Data Format) Check-run
OptiStruct Check-run
25 RadiossA RADIOSS (Block Format) Engine
RadiossB RADIOSS (Bulk Data Format)
OptiStruct (Analysis only)
AcuSolve AcuSolve
AcuView AcuView
AcuTrace AcuTrace
AcuFwh AcuFwh
MotionSolve MotionSolve
50 OptiStruct Optimization
HyperXtrudeFEA HyperXtrude Solver