Software for stress testing?

[THAWA]

Does anyone know of any "Free" software one could use for stress testing? Like if you were to design something with a CAD program is there anything you can use to take the CAD design and stress test the design? I dunno if anything like that exists, or what.

[BAC5.2]

High-end CAD programs can, and will, subject designs to stress tests given the appropriate data.

I have spent a good portion of time using PST's Pro-Engineer. There are model-check files and stuff that can subject your design to heat, and shear stresses. I didn't play with those features much.

I remember my professor telling me about using it to design cylinder heads, and that you could have Pro-E find the hot-spots and give you fairly accurate temperature readouts.

Obviously it's just rough numbers, but it was cool.

You'll spend some $4000 on the program though.

[AWD_addict]

I think Catia does FEA stuff too.

[Manarius]

Heh, I read stress as in stressing the computer. Apparently that's not the case though. But, I thought it's get a plug in for Prime95, a PC stress tester.

[Redlined]

I usually use those free disks that AoL sends out.

See how many holes you can drill in one in a minute, then try to beat that record!

[free5ty1e]

That's what I thought too. Prime95 does some nice stress-testing. So does Burn-In. But I don't think he wants to undervolt his processor in this case

AOL Cds are excellent for skeet shooting, coasters, if sharpened they can be used as death frisbees, etc etc.

And now back to the topic! (maybe)

[THAWA]

I use Folding for PC stress testing. If it can fold at least two protiens without crashing it's stable for me. Then I just leave it folding forever! Besides, Folding produces higher CPU temps, is more stressful is some aspects than some benchmark tests, and you're helping save lives at the same time.

[free5ty1e]

I have never heard of that before. Interesting.