120A100-equivalent GPU-hours included every month≈30,000conventional CPU core-hours at our conservative 250-core basis10×SimScale Community's listed 3,000 core-hour allocation—each month≈$4,500monthly compute value at a $0.15 conventional core-hour reference
Published Fluent references
One GPU can replace hundreds of CPU cores
Studio uses 250 cores per A100 for planning—below the reference results shown here.
Engineering case
Hardware comparison
Published result
Core-equivalent
DrivAer external aerodynamics
1× A100 vs 80× Xeon Platinum 8380 cores
>5× faster
~400 cores
7.1M-cell automotive air intake
1× A100 vs 32× Xeon Gold 6242 cores
8.3× faster
~265 cores
Five steady cases, 2M–14M cells
1× H100 NVL vs Xeon Silver 4416+
67% less energy
400+ cores
Studio published planning basis
A100-equivalent allocation
Conservative
250 cores
GPU uplift varies with physics, mesh size, solver settings and CPU generation. These are third-party Fluent reference cases, not a promise that every case will achieve the same speedup. Our 250-core planning basis is deliberately conservative.
All-in platform
What you do not pay for separately
Cost area
Traditional CAE + on-prem
Traditional CAE + cloud
Studio
Solver licence
£20–60k / year
£20–60k / year
Included
Parallel scaling
HPC Pack step costs
HPC Packs
No HPC licence
Concurrent jobs
Additional licences
Additional licences
3 included on Core
Compute
Hardware, power and cooling
Variable cloud bill
120 GPU-hours included
Meshing
Competes with solve capacity
Additional cloud bill
Separate 1,000 core-hour budget
GPU choice
Fixed at purchase
Per-instance pricing
A100, H100 and B200
Operations
Your sysadmin time
Your cloud administration
Managed by Studio
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