You may choose to read this document from front to back in order to learn more about maximizing performance. However, if you are an experienced Mechanical APDL user, you may just need to focus on particular topics that will help you gain insight into performance issues that apply to your particular analysis. The following list of chapter topics may help you to narrow the search for specific information:
Hardware Considerations gives a quick introduction to hardware terms and definitions used throughout the guide.
Understanding Mechanical APDL Computing Demands describes computing demands for memory, parallel processing, and I/O.
Memory Usage and Performance is a more detailed discussion of memory usage for various solver options. Subsections of this chapter allow users to focus on the memory usage details for particular solver choices.
Parallel Processing Performance describes how you can measure and improve scalability using distriubuted-memory parallel (DMP) processing.
Measuring Performance describes how to use Mechanical APDL output to measure performance for each of the commonly used solver choices.
A glossary at the end of the document defines terms used throughout the guide.