PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS (NASDAQ:
ANSS), the High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) of the
University of Stuttgart and Cray
Inc. have set a new supercomputing world record by scaling
ANSYS® Fluent® to over 172,000 computer cores
on the HLRS supercomputer Hazel Hen, a Cray® XC40™
system – enabling organizations to create innovative and
groundbreaking complete virtual prototypes of their products faster
and more efficiently than ever.
ANSYS, HLRS and Cray have pushed the boundaries of
supercomputing by achieving a new supercomputing milestone by
scaling ANSYS software to 172,032 cores on the Cray®
XC40™ supercomputer, hosted at HLRS, running at 82 percent
efficiency. This is nearly a 5x increase over the record set two
years ago when Fluent was scaled to 36,000 cores.
By leveraging high performance computing (HPC), companies can
rapidly iterate their products. Even though most organizations do
not have access to this extreme core count level yet, users across
all computing platforms from HPC clusters over Cloud to engineering
desktops can take advantage of the breakthroughs that speed up
computing at all levels.
"Our high-performance computing technology partnership with HLRS
is delivering cutting-edge simulation capabilities," said
Wim Slagter, director of HPC and
cloud marketing at ANSYS. "With the state-of-the-art resources and
support from Cray, as well as access to government, industry and
academia, we can use HPC to solve even more complex and challenging
problems across any industry."
Since announcing their partnership in 2015, ANSYS has worked
with HLRS and Cray to profile and benchmark ANSYS' simulation
software for extreme HPC scalability and capability. The
partnership not only ensures that ANSYS' simulation software scales
to extreme loads, but also broadens the scope of simulations,
allowing for applicability to a much broader set of real-world
problems and products.
"We see the role of HLRS as vital for industrial innovation,"
said Michael M. Resch, HLRS
director. "We not only provide the HPC platforms for industrial
companies and scientific organizations but also support them in
developing solutions for their research and their business based on
extreme HPC capabilities. This partnership is a prime example that
supercomputing can be brought to bear on some of the most pressing
technical challenges of the day."
The new record is critical as the demand for HPC to solve
large-scale simulation challenges is growing across industries,
especially in the aerospace and automotive industries, where
product simulation models are becoming larger and more complex. We
can now tackle more complex and broader systems level simulation
needed to develop the smarter and greener products of tomorrow.
"This record-setting scaling of ANSYS software on the Cray XC40
supercomputer at HLRS proves that close collaborations with
customers and partners can produce exceptional results for running
complex simulations," said Fred
Kohout, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at
Cray. "The highly-integrated architecture of the Cray XC40 and its
Aries interconnect are designed for applications at any scale, and
allow scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of advanced
simulations."
About ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS is the global leader in engineering simulation. We bring
clarity and insight to our customer's most complex design
challenges through the broadest portfolio of fast, accurate
and reliable simulation tools. Our technology enables organizations
in all industries to imagine high-quality, innovative
product designs that are sustainable and have an accelerated
time to market. Founded in 1970, ANSYS employs almost
3000 professionals, more than 700 of them with PhDs 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 and development locations throughout the world with
a network of channel partners in 40+ countries. Visit
http://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
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About HLRS:
The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the
University of Stuttgart is one of
the three German supercomputer institutions forming the national
Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. HLRS supports German and
pan-European researchers as well as industrial users with
leading-edge supercomputing technology. The HLRS supercomputer
Hazel Hen is currently registered at position 9 in the TOP
500, which lists the world's most powerful HPC systems
world-wide. The HPGMG benchmark identified Hazel Hen as the second
best system in the world regarding its performance under real
application conditions. The Cray XC40 system is capable of more
than 7 petaflop/s, or seven thousand trillion calculations per
second, of computing power. It has 185,088 processing cores housed
in 7,712 dual-socket nodes with Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
processors.
HLRS press materials can be found here.
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