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    Help with Rebuilding 80T 4-Post Hydraulic Press

    I just purchased this hydraulic press and power unit and I’m planning to fully refurbish it. The plan is to build a new stand that integrates the power unit, powder coat nearly everything, and make new stainless platen plates to cover the existing ones. It’s my understanding that the press and...
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    How much does using Virtual Memory (Page files) decrease performance?

    So here's the specs for my RAM and Hard Drives: RAM: Standard Name: DDR2-667 Data Transfers Per Second: 667 Million Peak Transfer Rate: 5333MB/s Hard Drives: Model: Seagate Cheetah 15.5k Interface: Ultra320 SCSI Data I/O Transfers Per Second: 2150 Peak Transfer Rate...
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    How much does using Virtual Memory (Page files) decrease performance?

    Ok, so it's weird, bit I don't have an .sta file for this job (I do for older jobs that I've completed though). I have inp, com, log, 023, ipm, lck, 023.1, 023.2, 023.3, cid, dat, msg, sim, mdl, stt, odb, prt, and rpy. Would any of those help? The stt file is over 21GB. Also, I don't know if it...
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    How much does using Virtual Memory (Page files) decrease performance?

    If standard.exe is pegged at 25%, but the memory usage listed under the "processes" tab of Windows Task Manager is only 220k, does that mean that it's not even crunching number anymore? Under the Applications tab, my Page File Usage shows 68.3GB is still allocated. Should I just kill the...
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    How much does using Virtual Memory (Page files) decrease performance?

    Where is a good place to get I/O speeds for RAM?
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    How much does using Virtual Memory (Page files) decrease performance?

    So I have 16GB of physical memory, but the analysis I need to run has about 8 million quadratic hybrid tetrahedral elements, which is requiring about 43 GB of space right now. The value peaked at about 70GB, when I think Abaqus was building the B matrix. I have two dual-core 3.1GHz AMD Opteron...

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