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Running Lumerical simulations

Starting with 2023 R2, you can run FDTD simulations on supported NVidia GPU. See the "Getting started with running FDTD on GPU" page below for details.

  • Accessing GPU results
  • Running GPU simulations
  • Resource configuration for multi-node multi-GPU simulations
  • Resource configuration for single node GPU simulations
  • Checking GPU streaming multiprocessor count
  • Persistent License Checkout
  • Ansys Engineering Copilot
  • Running simulations using the Windows command prompt
  • Running simulations using terminal on Linux
  • Running simulations with MPI on Linux
  • Intel MPI Configuration for Remote Simulations
  • Running FDTD simulations from the design environment
  • Running RCWA simulations from the design environment
  • Compute resource configuration use cases
  • Resource configuration elements and controls
  • Getting started with running FDTD on GPU
  • RCWA Resource Configuration
  • Ansys optics solve, accelerator, and Ansys HPC license consumption
  • Using solve licenses with FDTD and MODE
  • Using solve licenses with INTERCONNECT
  • Lumerical startup scripts overview
  • FDTD Performance Benchmarks
  • Running script in safe mode
  • EME Performance Benchmarks
  • Changing the number of threads to run INTERCONNECT
  • How to run Lumerical API scripts from terminal in Linux
  • How to configure Intel MPI on Windows on the local computer
  • Configuring resources for parallel jobs across several computers
  • Run simulations in parallel on local or remote machines
  • How to run simulations in the background

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