This paper discusses how Intel and Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC) partnered to optimize Ansys LS-DYNA software, and it demonstrates the impact of 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor technologies for enhancing the performance of Ansys LS-DYNA software.

The paper focuses on two different approaches for making use of Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) with Ansys LS-DYNA:

• Ansys LS-DYNA Explicit using Intel compiler vectorization techniques
• Ansys LS-DYNA Implicit using Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) for accelerating dense matrix computational kernels