PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS
(NASDAQ: ANSS) and the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) announced today that they have scaled
ANSYS® Fluent® to 36,000 compute cores – an
industry first that could lead to greater efficiencies and
increased innovation throughout manufacturers' product development
processes.
As companies increasingly seek to minimize time, quality and
cost pressures by using engineering simulation, they have been
constrained by compute power. High-performance computing (HPC) has
become a core strategic technology enabling enhanced insight into
product performance and improving the productivity by considering
more design variants.
The combination of the Blue Waters supercomputer and the Cray
Inc. engineering team, the NCSA Private Sector Program technical
team, and recent enhancements to the Fluent code enables
organizations to study the most complex and realistic simulation
cases. Blue Waters uses hundreds of thousands of computational
cores to achieve peak performance of more than 13 quadrillion
calculations per second. That advanced compute power is helpful for
applications like Fluent software, an industry-leading
computational fluid dynamics solution used by organizations around
the world.
"We're connecting all the dots," said Ahmed Taha, the NCSA senior computational
resource coordinator who led this extreme benchmarking project.
"NCSA is unique in connecting the industrial users, the hardware
and software vendors, and the domain expertise of our staff. In
addition, this level of scalability for a commercial fluid dynamics
solver is unprecedented on our system, especially considering the
complexity of the model physics with transient, turbulent flow,
chemical species transport and multiple non-reacting flows."
"Compute power has increased a thousand-fold over the last
decade – enabling engineers to solve problems that were once
unsolvable," said Wim Slagter, ANSYS
HPC product manager. "While most organizations don't have access to
36,000 cores today, it won't be long before these extreme core
counts are commonplace. And even today's users who are running at
much lower core counts will see direct benefits through
considerably greater efficiencies. The results will be more amazing
products delivered to customers much faster than ever."
ANSYS and NCSA plan to continue exploring the limits of
scale-out computing, including testing and improving the scaling of
ANSYS fluid dynamics models involving even more complex physics.
Other collaborative efforts include running Fluent on NVIDIA
graphics processing units (GPUs), as well as testing the
supercomputing limits for applications such as turbomachinery using
ANSYS CFX®.
About ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS brings clarity and insight to
customers' most complex design challenges through fast, accurate
and reliable engineering simulation. Our technology enables
organizations ― no matter their industry ― to predict with
confidence that their products will thrive in the real world.
Customers trust our software to help ensure product integrity and
drive business success through innovation. Founded in 1970, ANSYS
employs over 2700 professionals, many of them expert in engineering
fields such as finite element analysis, computational fluid
dynamics, electronics and electromagnetics, embedded software,
system simulation and design optimization. Headquartered south of
Pittsburgh, U.S.A., ANSYS has more than 75 strategic sales
locations throughout the world with a network of channel partners
in 40+ countries. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
ANSYS also has a strong presence on the major social
channels. To join the simulation conversation, please visit:
www.ansys.com/Social@ANSYS
About NCSA
The National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) provides computing, data, networking, and
visualization resources and services that help scientists and
engineers across the country better understand our world. NCSA is
an interdisciplinary hub and is engaged in research and education
collaborations with colleagues and students across the campus of
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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