Distributed HFSS-IE Guidelines for HPC Configuration

The dependence of distributed HFSS-IE solver on number of tasks is somewhat different compared with the domain decomposition solver. For HFSS-IE, the number of tasks increases the total memory but typically also increases the speed of the simulation. We suggest the following guidelines:

1. If memory usage is critical, 1 task per machine is recommended using all cores.
2. If memory usage is not critical, then using 4 cores per task is recommended for optimal speed.