PITTSBURGH, July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS (NASDAQ:
ANSS), Saudi Aramco and King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology (KAUST) have set a new supercomputing milestone by
scaling ANSYS® Fluent® to nearly 200,000
processor cores – enabling organizations to make critical and
cost-effective decisions faster and increase the overall efficiency
of oil and gas production facilities.
This supercomputing record represents a more than 5x increase
over the record set just three years ago, when Fluent first reached
the 36,000-core scaling milestone.
The calculations were run on the Shaheen II, a Cray® XC40™
supercomputer, hosted at the KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab (KSL).
By leveraging high performance computing (HPC), ANSYS, Saudi Aramco
and KSL sped up a complex simulation of a separation vessel from
several weeks to an overnight run. This simulation is critical to
all oil and gas production facilities – empowering organizations
around the world to reduce design development time and better
predict equipment performance under varying operational conditions.
Saudi Aramco will apply this technology to make more-informed,
timely decisions to retrofit separation vessels to optimize
operation throughout an oil field's lifetime.
"Today's regulatory requirements and market expectations mean
that manufacturers must develop products that are cleaner, safer,
more efficient and more reliable," said Wim
Slagter, director of HPC and cloud alliances at ANSYS. "To
reach such targets, designers and engineers must understand product
performance with higher accuracy than ever before – especially for
separation technologies, where an improved separation performance
can immediately increase the efficiency and profitability of an oil
field. The supercomputing collaboration between ANSYS, Saudi Aramco
and KSL enabled enhanced insight in complex gas, water and
crude-oil flows inside a separation vessel, which include liquid
free-surface, phase mixing and droplets settling phenomena."
"Our oil and gas facilities are among the largest in the world.
We selected a complex representative application – a multiphase
gravity separation vessel – to confirm the value of HPC in reducing
turnover time, which is critical to our industry," said
Ehab Elsaadawy, computational
modeling specialist and oil treatment team leader at Saudi Aramco's
Research and Development Center. "By working with strategic
partner, KAUST, we can now run these complex simulations in one day
instead of weeks."
KSL's Shaheen II supercomputer is a Cray system composed of
6,174 nodes representing 197,568 processor cores tightly integrated
with a richly layered memory hierarchy and interconnection
network.
"Multiphase problems are complex and require multiple global
synchronizations, making them harder to scale than single phase
laminar or turbulent flow simulation. Unstructured mesh and complex
geometry add further complexity," said Jysoo Lee, director, KAUST
Supercomputing Core Lab. "Our scalability tests are not just
designed for the sake of obtaining scalability at scale. This was a
typical Aramco separation vessel with typical operation conditions,
and larger core counts are added to reduce the time to solution.
ANSYS provides a viable tool for Saudi Aramco to solve their design
and analysis problems at full capacity of Shaheen. And for
KAUST-Aramco R&D collaboration, this is our first development
work. There are more projects in the pipeline."
About ANSYS, Inc.
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge, or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its
creation. ANSYS is the global leader in engineering simulation. We
help the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better
products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest
portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve
the most complex design challenges and create products limited only
by imagination. Founded in 1970, ANSYS employs thousands of
professionals, many of whom are expert M.S. and Ph.D.-level
engineers in finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics,
electronics, semiconductors, embedded software and design
optimization. Headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., ANSYS has
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About Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco is the state-owned oil
company of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia and a fully integrated global petroleum and chemicals
enterprise. Over the past 80 years, we have become a world leader
in hydrocarbons exploration, production, refining, distribution and
marketing. Saudi Aramco's oil and gas production infrastructure
leads the industry in scale of production, operational reliability,
and technical advances. Our plants and the people who run them make
us the world's largest crude oil exporter, producing roughly one in
every eight barrels of the world's oil supply.
About King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
(KAUST)
KAUST advances science and technology through
distinctive and collaborative research integrated with graduate
education. Located on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia, KAUST conducts curiosity-driven
and goal-oriented research to address global challenges related to
food, water, energy and the environment. Established in 2009, KAUST
is a catalyst for innovation, economic development and social
prosperity in Saudi Arabia and the
world. The university currently educates and trains over 900
master's and doctoral students, supported by an academic community
of 150 faculty members, 400 postdocs and 300 research scientists.
With 100 nationalities working and living at KAUST, the university
brings together people and ideas from all over the world.
www.kaust.edu.sa
The KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab mission is to inspire and
enable scientific, economic and social advances through the
development and application of HPC solutions, through collaboration
with KAUST researchers and partners, and through the provision of
world-class computational systems and services. Visit
https://corelabs.kaust.edu.sa/supercomputing/ for more
information.
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