Core Pinning. From the Settings dialog, you can pin each LS-DYNA process to a unique core ID when running shared memory parallel processing (SMP) or massively parallel processing (MPP) with Intel MPI on a local machine. This typically increases analysis performance and is beneficial if, for example, the job is run on a computer with both E-cores and P-cores, as you can specify that LS-DYNA processes run on P-cores only.