Starting with Ansys release 2020 R2, HPC licenses may be used for concurrent simulation of parametric variations, allowing you to leverage standard HPC licenses instead of extra solver licenses. Each variation, after the first, requires 8 HPC increments or 1 HPC Pack increment. Similar to non-parametric simulations, each variation provides 4 included parallel cores per variation. Additional HPC parallel cores are shared across all variations, using the same HPC rules. All licenses that are consumed during a concurrent parametric simulation are held for the duration of the simulation, based on the max count of each license required for a given variation.

You can use the Ansys Parametric Licensing Calculator (https://ansys.com/parametric) to determine the number of HPC Workgroup or HPC Pack licenses required.

HPC Parametric Example

6 Parametric Variations, 24 Cores/Variation