PITTSBURGH, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS (NASDAQ:
ANSS) and Cray Inc., working in conjunction with two supercomputing
centers, have smashed the previous simulation world record by
scaling ANSYS® Fluent® to 129,000 compute cores – enabling
organizations to spur innovation by creating complete virtual
prototypes of their products. ANSYS achieved these breakthroughs by
working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
(NERSC).
Less than a year ago, ANSYS announced Fluent had scaled to
36,000 cores with the help of NCSA. While the nearly 4x increase
over the previous record is significant, it tells only part of the
story. ANSYS has broadened the scope of simulations allowing for
applicability to a much broader set of real-world problems and
products than any other company offers.
The calculations were run on a Cray®
XC30™ supercomputer running at 90 percent efficiency –
which is unprecedented in its scale and efficiency for parallel
processing. For example, few software packages achieve greater than
75 percent efficiency approaching this scale.
"This 4x increase over the previous record for compute core
count includes a complex simulation involving multiple complicated
physics, in this case an industrial combustor," said Wim Slagter, ANSYS HPC product manager. "We test
our software on real-life applications by partnering with the
global leaders in supercomputing. That's the only way we can ensure
that the advancements made in the lab are actually usable by our
industrial customers."
This new record is critical as products – from mobile phones to
driverless automobiles to aerial drones – become smarter and
customers demand faster and more frequent product introductions
without compromising the ultimate quality and reliability of
product designs. By leveraging extreme computing power,
organizations can rapidly iterate designs to reinvent whole product
categories and to create the next "must-have" product. And while
most organizations don't have access to core counts of this size,
even users at lower levels of compute power are now less
constrained by hardware limitations because bigger models can be
sped up at existing capacity.
The growth in computing power over the last decade has been
remarkable, given that in 2005 the most sophisticated simulations
were being performed on a maximum of 512 cores. During this period,
ANSYS has engineered its products to nearly double their
scalability annually, and has consistently met the industry's
challenge and customer's expectations for creating breakthrough
products.
"Less than a year ago, our partners ANSYS and NCSA made a
breakthrough with a 36,000-core fluid dynamics simulation," said
Steve Scott, senior vice president
and chief technology officer at Cray. "Only a few months later, the
team has eclipsed that record. This example of extreme scalability
for high-fidelity simulations is needed to keep up with the
accelerated pace of innovation in the marketplace."
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 2750 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
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