ANSYS Expands HPC Capacity for Enhanced R&D

By DE Editors

ANSYS, Inc. has added large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) systems from HP that will enhance the company’s software research and development efforts.

Two HPC systems, totaling 76 server nodes with 576 cores, are being deployed to support today’s increasingly compute-intensive engineering simulation workloads. The systems include 28 HP ProLiant DL 165/160 server nodes located in the U.S. and 48 HP ProLiant BL465c blade server nodes in Germany. The systems are based on quad-core processors from AMD and Intel.

The HPC systems provide ANSYS with the capacity and throughput needed for support of large-scale industrial problems being addressed by a range of ANSYS customers.

Current engineering simulation problems can involve whole systems, meaning increasingly larger model sizes as product development teams include more geometric detail and consideration of full CAD assemblies. In addition, high-fidelity representation of complex physical phenomena—including time-varying treatment of turbulence, aero-acoustics, vibration, and multiphysics—has increased the demand for computing capacity to support engineering simulation. HPC systems provide the capacity required for large models and to achieve the turnaround time required for engineering decision making, reducing tasks that might have taken weeks or months to days or mere hours, according to the company. With shortened turnaround times, engineers have more bandwidth to conduct simulation studies on multiple design points instead of conserving simulation horsepower and development time for one portion of the design puzzle.

The HP clusters deployed by ANSYS are being used for software tuning and performance testing, using large-scale industrial simulation workloads.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.