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. 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.