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Understanding and
Predicting the ROI of
High-Performance
Computing
High Performance Computing, or HPC, delivers faster solves, but that is often not enough to justify the expense
to management. For management to take the plunge, they need to understand the return on investment for
their organization.
From years of helping organizations of all sizes understand and leverage the benefits of Ansys HPC solutions,
we have developed some analogies that paint clear pictures of how HPC works and how a company can
determine the ROI. The goal of this white paper is to present these analogies and demonstrate:
1. HPC doesn't have to be a giant leap
2. Cost and time savings can be reasonably predicted
3. HPC can open new ways of thinking about simulations
To accomplish our goal, we cover four topics:
1. Parallel Scalability
2. Adapted Methodologies
3. Value of HPC Solutions
4. Rent vs. Own vs. Both
Parallel Scalability
Software is said to exhibit scalable parallelism if it can use additional processors to solve larger problems,
however, it's not always linear; you can't expect to throw computational power at a problem and end up
infinitely multiplying the computational speed.
WHITEPAPER
