Parallel Processing Support for Abaqus Features
The following Abaqus/Standard features can be executed in parallel: analysis input preprocessing, the direct sparse solver, the iterative solver, the eigensolvers, and element operations. Analysis input preprocessing uses only MPI-based parallelization and will not be executed in parallel if only data checking is performed. For Abaqus/Explicit all the computations other than those involving the analysis input preprocessor and the packager can be executed in parallel. Each of the features that are available for parallel execution has certain limitations, which are documented in detail; see Parallel Execution in Abaqus/Standard and Parallel Execution in Abaqus/Explicit.