Dear Researcher

If you have a lot of RAM, ABAQUS Standard can keep a large amount of files

in the RAM and save up to the 90 % of the computational time.

For the same Job (Abaqus Standard), running on a node with 2 CPUs, Dualcore (so 4 cores maximum)

with LINUX, I obtained the following results:

1 core: 36000 seconds

4 core: 15000 seconds

It seems reasonable.

On a node with 1 CPU, Quadcore but with Windows professional 64 bit:

1 core: 35000 seconds

4 core: 34500 seconds

Please check this attachments if it is helpful for you.

http://www.egr.msu.edu/software/abaqus/Documentation/docs/v6.7/books/usb/default.htm?startat=pt04ch11s09aus70.html

http://www.egr.msu.edu/software/abaqus/Documentation/docs/v6.7/books/usb/default.htm?startat=pt01ch03s04aus28.html

http://imechanica.org/files/l10-large-models_2.pdf