Benchmark Results: Abaqus FEA & Windows HPC Server 2008
DS announces accelerated simulation performance for Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA using flexible cluster configuration.
October 28, 2008
By DE Editors
A simulation benchmark using Abaqus FEA software and Windows HPC Server 2008 has been completed. Dassault Systèmes (DS; Paris, France) announced that R Systems (Champaign, IL), an IT solutions provider, in cooperation with SIMULIA (Providence, RI) and Dana Holding Corporation (Toledo, OH), accelerated simulation performance.
The analysis, which normally takes a little over two days to complete using eight cores, ran to completion in less than 3.5 hours. Using 128 cores of a 256-core Intel Harpertown cluster with Quad Data Rate InfiniBand, R Systems performed the benchmark study of a finite element analysis (FEA) model provided by Dana to evaluate distributed memory performance of Abaqus FEA on Windows.
Running Abaqus FEA software on a Windows-based cluster provides engineers with an integrated, efficient, and easily scalable high-performance computing (HPC) platform can solve some of the most complex simulation and multiphysics analysis equations in less time by leveraging the combination of Abaqus distributed-memory parallel technology and Windows clustering solutions, says the release.
For more information, visit Dassault Systèmes or R Systems NA, Inc.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
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