Hi Balázs,
It is obviously important to have good Inventor model import capabilities, particularly with an increasing market share for Inventor in the plastics space. Model import capabilities not only improve a work flow, but also improve results accuracy.
On the topic of Parallel processing; as you said, the 3D Warp solver had been parallelized in a previous release, but it is now extended to the 3D Flow solver in Moldflow 2010 Release 2. Parallelizing the 3D Flow code is a substantial effort, that the development team has worked towards over the last few years and include speed improvements that were made over the last few years through code improvements. This streamlining of the 'single threaded' code makes the current 'parallel' code efficient and scale well with more cores.
On the subject of the use of the GPU for the 3D Flow solver, the requirement is that the card supports CUDA AND double precision. Graphics cards that can use CUDA but are single precision, are not supported.
I hope this helps.
Hanno
Edited by: raalteh on Aug 11, 2009 12:48 PM
Hanno van Raalte,
Product Manager - Injection Molding & Moldflow products