Does ANSYS HFSS simulation make use of the AMD CPU libraries?

In HFSS 2022 R1 Ansys integrated the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL) into HFSS as a user selectable beta feature and released in an automated implementation at HFSS 2023 R1.

HFSS makes heavy use of BLAS and LAPACK linear algebra libraries to complete the simulation computations and has historically integrated Intel MKL into HFSS to accelerate the simulation workload. In HFSS 2022 R1 Ansys integrated the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL) into HFSS as a user selectable beta feature and released in an automated implementation at HFSS 2023 R1. 

Reference [1] explores the use of AMD’s AOCL  to help accelerate Ansys HFSS simulation performance for 5G antenna design. The libraries run on a Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPU in a Lenovo Thinkstation P620. 

References 

[1] https://www.ansys.com/content/dam/amp/2023/july/quick-request/ansys-amd-lenovo-hfss-white-paper.pdf