I am a bit new to this. However we are in the same boat. I am running an analysis on a silicone seal which obviouslly has a very large deformation (non-linear). The seal material is also non-linear and the model also has several contacts. I simplified the model as much as I could however the element count is still arount 15,000.
The model does run properly, however it takes 6 days and I am still not at the full displacement yet.
Right now we are considering building a new computer forhis purpose. Since it is obvious that the majority of the run takes place on one processer we are evaluating the two folloing options:
Intel Core i7-5820K
Intel Core i7-4790K
I am currently using this one:
Intel Xeon E5640
Does anyone have expiriance with these two or perhaps other suggestions?
We are also considering a few SSDs in a RAID and about 16 GB of DDR3 memory.
However, what I would really like to know is what type of gains may I expect. If shave the 6 days down to 4 I havent really gained all that much. However a 5x increase in speed wbe worth it.
Any comments?