Hardware requirement

RE: Hardware requirement

Payel — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:58:54 GMT

Your machine's configurations are pretty good. STAAD does not take advantage of a multi-core processor, so you may not see significant CPU utilization on a multi-core CPU. STAAD analysis and design engine use a single core; only the design based on AISC code uses multi-core in certain situations.

Since STAAD performs a lot of disk I/O, running it on an SSD drive will increase the performance. Our experience shows that STAAD performs better on AMD-based machines than equivalent Intel-based machines.

In some instances, STAAD engine performance can be adversely affected by how the STAAD model is set up. If you will like to investigate further in the context of the input STAAD model. please create a Service Request and share the model with us.

RE: Hardware requirement

Gary Forrow — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:38:02 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the response. According to Buy STAAD.Pro: Structural Analysis & Design Software | Virtuosity (bentley.com) the minimum spec is a 2GHz processor, which I achieve, so trying to convince IT that a 3GHz processor is required is difficult. Even more difficult when the Xeon processor I am using is rated from 2.7GHz to 4.4GHz, so would meet the minimum anyway. As I said though, the analysis does not push the utilisation of the processor that hard, so the overclocking of the processor does not happen often.

I will try and get a processor that natively runs above 3GHz and see what happens.

RE: Hardware requirement

Payel — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:00:43 GMT

According to our minimum system requirements, having a clock speed of 3.0 GHz or more is beneficial. In addition to this, an increase in memory (eg. 16 GB to 32 GB) would also help with performance.