The use of WMPI as the parallel message passing protocol has been discontinued and AUTODYN is now only made available using HP-MPI as the parallel message passing protocol. Please note that dynamic spawning of slave processes from the AUTODYN component system is no longer available and that the number of slave tasks is specified before starting the AUTODYN application.

The automatic parallel decomposition algorithm has been extended to include Multi-material Euler parts. Previously it only handled Ideal Gas Euler and unstructured grids. This facilitates the decomposing of complicated Euler/Lagrange coupled models—you need only stipulate the number of tasks over which the model should be assigned and AUTODYN will automatically produce a decomposition configuration with good load balancing qualities and minimal inter-processor communication.